Over the past five years, nearly 48,000 people have been killed in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico, the country's federal attorney general announced this month. In the first three quarters of 2011, almost 13,000 people died.
By: Charlotte Wilder | August 10, 2016 11:31 am. If medal counts were the way we determined what or who constitutes a nation, Michael Phelps would probably be invited to the G8 summit at this point. Heâs won 25 Olympic medals, 21 of them gold, which is more than any Olympian in the history of the Olympics. But Phelps has also won more medals than most countries competing in the Olympics.
Thus, eight of his 18 gold medals were won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where Phelps took Spitzâs record. While the fame and awe lasted a while, it also called attention to Phelpsâ recreational drug use, which was addressed publicly when a picture of him using a bong surfaced on the Internet in February 2009.