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Weekly Report - 23 July 2015 (WR-15-29)
MEXICO: (Partially) good news
It looked like good news after a terrible week. Still reeling from the humiliation of the spectacular tunnelling escape of the Sinaloa drug gang leader Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán from the Altiplano I prison, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto could perhaps take some encouragement from a preliminary report published by the national statistics institute (Inegi), on 21 July showing that the number of homicides fell by nearly 15% last year. While the government might have trouble keeping top prisoners in jail, at least it can say that the explosion of violence across Mexico that erupted under the previous administration is being gradually brought under control. But analysts who have gone over the fine details of the data say there are still reasons for concern.
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