Enrique Krauze

via Bloomberg
Mexico, battered by an interminable narco war, hasn’t found a firm consensus on how to combat organized crime.

The lack of such a consensus in Mexico weakens and confuses us as a society, even as it strengthens the criminals and their political accomplices. Sooner or later we will achieve an agreement that can be supported by the majority of Mexicans, but that must happen soon.

Every six years, for far too long, a change of Mexico's government would eventually lead to a new economic crisis. Since 1994, there has been a steadier and more responsible management of public finances. Yet a central problem remains unsolved. The economic expansion is insufficient to mitigate, let alone reverse, the poverty that afflicts more than 40 percent of the population.