Pe?a Nieto?s Pi?ata: The Promise and Pitfalls of Mexico?s New Security Policy against Organized Crime

Pe?a Nieto?s Pi?ata: The Promise and Pitfalls of Mexico?s New Security Policy against Organized Crime

Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Brookings Institution

February 2013

Mexico?s new president, Enrique Pe?a Nieto, has a tough year ahead of him. After six years of extraordinarily high homicide levels and gruesome brutality in Mexico, he has promised to prioritize social and economic issues and to refocus Mexico?s security policy on reducing violence. During its first months in office, his administration has eschewed talking about drug-related deaths or arrests. The Mexican public is exhausted by the bewildering intensity and violence of crime as well as by the state?s blunt assault on the drug trafficking groups. It expects the new president to deliver greater public safety, including from abuses committed by the Mexican military, which Mexico?s previous president, Felipe Calder?n, deployed to the streets to tackle the drug cartels.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2013/02/mexico-new-security-policy-felbabbrown

Tags : cartels, El Centro, Mexico, narco-traffickers, organized crime

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