Reforma: We Can't Wait a Year to Evaluate Pena Nieto's Drug War Strategy Reed Brundage - Mexico Voices
go to original March 23, 2013

Not until the beginning of December 2013 will we have completed the first time period set by Enrique Peña Nieto to assess the scope of the actions of his government regarding crime and violence.

Only one year after the beginning of his administration will it be possible to make an initial assessment of the results of his strategy to deal with organized crime and make "judgments of how we are doing with this strategy," he said at the conclusion of his visit to Rome.

But for now, in the first 100 days of the government, the dynamics of the previous administration continue to prevail. The volume of executions and violence in the country remains at the same rate as previous years.

The Tijuana weekly, Zeta, which has punctually carried out a count of the executions over the past six years, has confronted, once again, recent reports by the National Information System, compared with those of the states Attorneys General and Secretariates of Public Security and other sources.

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An explanation is required as to why the National Information System reports fewer homicides than state attorneys general. It would be nice not to have to wait a year to find out.

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