Mexico: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Steve Fisher Denise Dresser gives a talk at UC Berkeley. At a time when Mexico is undergoing enormous changes, recently elected president Enrique Peña Nieto is pushing ahead some of the country’s most ambitious reforms in decades. Soon after taking office, Peña Nieto implemented a campaign to change the country’s image, and it seems... Continue Reading →

Peña Nieto’s Inherited War

Tara Buss by Tara Buss After six years and nearly 70,000 homicides directly linked to the ongoing war with drug trafficking organizations, the citizens of Mexico voted the National Action Party (PAN) out of the executive. By replacing President Calderón with Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico returned to the well-known rule... Continue Reading →

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