Dudley Althaus: Honeymoon Over for Mexico's President Pena Nieto Dudley Althaus - InSight
go to original April 8, 2013

Since taking office four months ago, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto and his subordinates have been been working overtime to forge a more hopeful, less blood-tinged conversation about their country. But that conversation may be coming to an end.

At the onset of his administration in December, Mexican and international media were encouraged to downplay the gangland violence, which has claimed 70,000 lives or more in the past six years, in favor of emphasizing all that's still going right with politics and the economy.

For the most part, pundits, prognosticators and private citizens have been lining up to tout "Mexico's moment" -- a new dawn brimming with economic promise and political deal making. Almost everyone has seemed eager to change the channel perhaps, in part, because so many of the local media depend on government ads to survive.

But the applause was not limited to the Mexican press.

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