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Epic card · History
Mexican drug war, an Epic card
The Mexican drug war is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 100
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 188
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 790,000
Power 188 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Mexican drug war quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mexican drug war card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
When the Mexican military ______ in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence.
Answer
intervened. When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence. From the Mexican drug war article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Mexican drug war. Mexican drug war 100 · Gujarat 96 · International Women's Day 92 · Sun Yat-sen 89 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence.
- The Mexican government has asserted that its primary focus is on dismantling the cartels and preventing drug trafficking.
- The conflict has been described as the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, as led by the United States federal government.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mexican drug war article was read about 790,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 100 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Mexican drug war
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mexican drug war (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Diego Fernández (autor original) / vendida con "copyright compartido" a la Agencia de Foto, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
