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Weekly Report - 05 March 2015 (WR-15-09)

Mexico’s ‘La Tuta’ captured; Murillo Karam released

It might have been with a sense of relief that Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto escaped to the United Kingdom (UK) for a three-day State visit this week. Feted abroad for an ambitious multifaceted structural reform programme to drive Mexico’s development, Peña Nieto is increasingly reviled by a large and vocal sector at home, where many Mexicans are yet to feel the full benefits of his government’s groundbreaking reforms but have borne witness to the indelible stain of violence, notably the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero state, in September 2014. This incident ultimately compelled Peña Nieto to replace his beleaguered attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, at the weekend, although his government struck a blow against organised crime with the capture of two of its top targets, including the drug kingpin, Servando ‘La Tuta’ Gómez.

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