'Positive Results & Significant Blows': Pena Nieto Touts Mexico's Progress in Drug War Vatican Radio
go to original April 24, 2015

The President of Mexico comments on statistics regarding drugs and crime: "These are compelling positive results and significant blows to the leadership of organized crime." (EPA)

Mexico is making significant inroads into its eight year ongoing drug war and associated crime wave, according to its President.

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Since Enrique Peña Nieto became President of Mexico in 2012, his forces of law and order, have arrested or killed 93 of the country's 122 principal drug cartel leaders and organized crime bosses. From January to March of this year, homicides and reports of kidnappings have decreased by 27 percent and 24 percent compared to three years ago. The Mexican Congress has just passed an anti-corruption law appointing a Special Prosecutor to a newly created anti-graft court.

President Peña Nieto says: "These are compelling positive results and significant blows to the leadership of organized crime." He does however concede that violence continues to threaten certain parts of the country. This is mainly focused on the northern border with the United States. More than 100,000 people have died in Mexico's drug war.

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