As organized criminal groups are / is what MEXICO is

John Marston · Dec 8, 2014

Do you remember this? Mexico Travel Warning

The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens about the risk of traveling to certain places in Mexico due to threats to safety and security posed by organized criminal groups in the country. U.S. citizens have been the target of violent crimes, such as kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery by organized criminal groups in various Mexican states. For information on security conditions in specific regions of Mexico, which can vary, travelers should reference the state-by-state assessments further below. This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning for Mexico, issued August 15, 2014, to update information about the security situation and to advise the public of additional restrictions on the travel of U.S. government (USG) personnel.

This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning for Mexico, issued August 15, 2014, to update information about the security situation and to advise the public of additional restrictions on the travel of U.S. government (USG) personnel
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Now you do not even need go there to get robbed or killed. Oops! Mexicrappico!

waltky · May 20, 2016

Corruption concerns drive lower public distrust of Mexican gov't....

Corruption Concerns in Mexico Drive Growing Levels of Public Distrust in Govt
May 19, 2016 Mexicos government faces the lowest level of public confidence seen in nearly a generation, with 61 percent of respondents in a recent poll saying the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Polling experts say the problem extends well beyond the presidency to the countrys governors, who never land in prison for corruption, according to a 2016 report on Mexicos democracy by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Public concern with corruption is the highest seen in 11 years, according to the Mexican polling firm, Consulta Mitofsky. Sixty-one percent of Mexicans surveyed by the firm say the country is headed in the wrong direction. President Enrique Peña Nietos approval rating is at the lowest level of his presidency, which began at the end of 2012. Public disapproval of his performance, according to the firms latest polls for this year, stands at 61 percent. Most surprising is a recent spike in the publics disapproval of the nations governors, according to Francisco Abundis of the polling firm Parametria.

The governors disapproval rating is at 50 percent, the highest level seen in 14 years, according to Parametrias latest survey of 1,000 respondents released in April, he said. For the first time in Mexico, we can speak of generalized discontent with the governing class not seen for 20 years, Abundis said. This is what surprises us. Its not just the president that has a low approval rating. Mexicos biggest problems are corruption and conflicts of interest, according to the report by the Bertelsmann Foundation, which monitors the health of open markets, democracy and the performance of public officials in 129 countries. Its Mexico report, covering the period from February 2013 to January 2015, found that corrupt governors and functionaries never land in prison and very few are forced to resign. There are no independent institutions with the power to impeach or prosecute governors, the executive cabinet or the president himself, the report said.

It cited widespread corruption among judges, allowing them to be manipulated by criminal groups and economic interests. Mexicos national Congress failed during its current session to act on anti-corruption legislation proposed by Peña Nieto, but members of the presidents party, the PRI, have promised to take up the measure during an extraordinary session this summer. The reform calls for the creation of a federal prosecutor focused exclusively on corruption, a special anticorruption court and tighter auditing of public expenditures. Meanwhile, the publics growing disenchantment with Mexicos democracy may be creating an opening for a populist candidate on the left to succeed Peña Nieto and win the presidency in 2018, according to a study by Medley Global Advisors as reported this week in The Financial Times.

Headlined Mexico political risk on the rise, the FT article specifically called out Andrés Manuel López Obredor, the former Mexico City mayor from the left who twice ran unsuccessfully for the presidency. He is back in the running again. Obredors popularity was compared with Donald Trumps success at capitalizing on GOP voters disenchantment with establishment politicians. Responding to the report, Obrador in a press release chided the newspaper for its support of structural reforms to Mexicos economy enacted by the Congress and the president, calling them a failure. Opponents of Obredors populist policies have called him a danger to Mexico. He said this week that the real danger comes from those who have dedicated themselves to robbing the public.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...ico-drive-growing-levels-public-distrust-govt
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