President Enrique Peña Nieto just entered the last year of his presidency.  He will hand over power to his successor on December 1, 2018.  (Elections will actually place in July, and there is already a lot of campaigning going on.) My guess is that he can't wait to pass the ball to the next one.  Violence is out of control in Mexico, as we see in this report from Elena Toledo: President Enrique Peña Nieto has been plagued by an inability to combat violence, but 2017 has been Mexico's worst to date under his leadership. Officials have registered 11,308 homicides this month – a figure that exceeds the 10,967 violent deaths that were reported at the time last year. If the trend continues, 2017 could close with 12,328 murders, the third-highest record of the decade, falling below the 12,568 crimes in 2010 and 12,412 in 2012.  In November, an average of 36 murders were committed each day in Mexico, amounting to a 1,082...(Read Full Post)