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Weekly Report - 18 December 2014 (WR-14-50)

MEXICO: Peña Nieto confounded by violence

Violence in the states of Guerrero and Michoacán over the course of the past week has raised the spectre of serious social convulsions unless the federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto can regain the initiative. Peña Nieto has worked hard to create an image of Mexico as reform-driven, efficient and modern, only for the country’s acute public security concerns to shoot to global prominence with the abduction, and presumed murder, of 43 trainee teachers in Iguala, Guerrero, in September, since when his government has been flailing.

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