Shortchanging Public Security

MEXICO - Report 20 Nov 2013 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration has been roundly criticized for the slow pace with which it has defined some key strategies and programs and has gotten the basic machinery of government up and running since taking office last December. This lethargy has been strikingly apparent in public security. According to President Peña’s First Annual State of the Nation Report, delivered last September, there was a 91% spending shortfall in public security matters during the first six months of the administration. A program as important as the Implementation of the Stra...

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