A Question of Strategic Timing

MEXICO - Report 10 Sep 2013 by Mauricio Gonzalez, Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Some moves in recent weeks by the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto in relation to its structural reform agenda may have been seen at the time as surrendering in the face of pressure from protesting social groups. The decision in late August to postpone a vote on the final and most crucial piece of secondary legislation in relation to education reform, as well as the passivity of public security forces while protestors seemed to run amuck in the nation’s capital, seemed to many a recipe for political disasters and greater social unrest to come. But it appears ...

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