The scale of the public security challenge facing Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador was laid bare this week by the release of figures showing that homicides reached a record high in 2017. López Obrador has given his incoming interior and public security ministers, Olga Sánchez Cordero and Alfonso Durazo respectively, a free hand to do “whatever is necessary to pacify the country”, but while there are some laudable aspects to the security proposals tabled so far no one knows how successful any of them would be at actually reducing the number of homicides in Mexico.
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