Politics: More Bad News on Security Front

MEXICO - Report 29 Apr 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary Insecurity remains a complicated issue for the administration of President Enrique Peña, which has long cited positive trends in crime rates to refute critics, many of whom have warned since the very first days of the Peña administration that it lacks a clear strategy for combatting organized crime and the control it exerts, especially in states where such groups were undergoing processes of fragmentation and re-composition such as Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Guerrero, and the State of Mexico, With the murder rate now trending higher, and six months since the Ayotzinapa student...

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