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Weekly Report - 30 June 2016 (WR-16-25)
MEXICO: Peña Nieto pursues new tack
There are signs that the federal government led by President Enrique Peña Nieto is learning from past mistakes. The decline in Peña Nieto’s popularity dates back to his government’s slow reaction to the abduction and presumed murder of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014, and failure to prioritise a thorough investigation into the incident. By contrast, the interior minister, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, responded immediately to the fatal clashes between police and protesters from the teachers’ union Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE) in the municipality of Asunción Nochixtlán in the southern state of Oaxaca on 19 June. Osorio Chong launched a dialogue process with the CNTE to restore calm, and promised an investigation into the eight deaths, with the active participation of relatives of the victims.
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