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Mexico & Nafta - July 2015 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Osorio Chong takes issue with Peace Index
When North Korea, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan are among less than a score of countries worldwide deemed to be more violent than Mexico, it is perhaps no surprise that the Mexican government should have responded defensively to the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) published by the think tank, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), in mid June. The interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, rejected Mexico’s lowly position in the GPI, turning to statistics in order to “prove” that the country has in fact become more secure. Mexico actually improved by a place on the previous year’s GPI, but the Sydney-based IEP nonetheless concluded that the country “remains mired in domestic conflict against drug-related violence”.
