“These events tarnish the collective and national effort to genuinely make Mexico a country of greater progress and development,” President Enrique Peña Nieto said last week as tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico City to protest against the disappearance of 43 students in Iguala, a town in the southern state of Guerrero, and the complicity of the municipal police and local officialdom with a local drug gang. Peña Nieto has met with reasonable success since coming to power in December 2012 at knocking security issues off the top of Mexico’s agenda and focusing on deep-rooted reforms to transform the country’s education, energy and telecommunications sectors, but his comments revealed just how damaging events in Guerrero could be for the national psyche not to mention his government’s efforts to alter the perception of Mexico abroad.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1030 words.
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