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Security & Strategic Review - December 2016 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Mexico: Ten years of blood and bullets
Ten years ago, on 11 December 2006, only a few days after taking office at the start of a six-year term, President Felipe Calderón of the Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN) announced he was deploying Mexico’s armed forces to take part in the struggle against organised crime. Despite some changes in emphasis his successor, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), who took office in December 2012, has followed broadly the same policy. The armed forces have therefore been in the front line of the fight against the drug cartels for a decade. Many Mexicans believe the results have been disastrous.
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