Having decided to play down the fight against drug kingpins, Enrique Peña Nieto has yet to come up with a serious alternative.
A HUMAN hellhole lies under the noses of American tourists driving from California into Mexico. Below the bridge leading into Tijuana is a dry canal strewn with heroin syringes that is home to countless migrants and vagrants, most of them thrown out of the United States for not having the right papers. Jesús Alberto Capella, Tijuana’s chief of police, says their numbers have included about 10,000 ex-convicts turfed out of American jails this year. They live under tarpaulins and in foxholes dug into the side of the canal. The place is a cauldron of violence. It is also a focal point for President Enrique Peña Nieto’s strategy of applying what officials call “social acupuncture” to some of the most dangerous parts of Mexico.
Una vez aprobada la reforma fiscal esta semana, gracias a una alianza del PRI con el PRD de Los Chuchos, vendrá el debate sobre la joya de la corona de todas las reformas propuestas por el Presidente: la reforma energética. ¿Podemos esperar que el Congreso apruebe los cambios legales para permitir la inversión privada en este sector? Creo que va a ser muy difícil. Dependerá de, al menos, tres condiciones.