President Says "Mexico Must Change"

Nieto has come under fire for his slow reaction to the
disappearance of 43 college students

       Mexico's leader, President Enrique Pena Nieto, has proposed a series of reforms Thursday that he hopes will combat the widespread crime and corruption that are facing his country.  For example, In September, a group of students boarded buses bound for the nearby city of Iguala.  They have not been heard from since.  Also on Thursday, authorities announced the discovery of 11 partially burned bodies of young adults found in southwestern Mexico, just an hour's drive from where the students attended classes.  While there is yet to be any official connection between the bodies and the students of a small college devoted to training students to become teachers in impoverished areas of the country, authorities are near certain.  Many authorities believe that the students were captured by the Iguala police, turned over to a gang then decapitated and executed in Cocula, approximately 14 miles away.  

       While Mexico's leader has been under fire for his relatively slow reaction to the crisis, I think that he is on the right track.  The likely convicts of the crime are called the Abarca, and since the discovery at least 75 people have been arrested for known connections with the group.  Though the incident sparked protests and unrest around the country, President Nieto managed to keep his country calm in this time of internal crisis.  Part of Nieto's action plan to combat crime and corruption in Mexico exists in the form of more than a dozen proposed reforms.  These would include a constitutional change that would give the state control over localized police and would set up a nationwide emergency number, something that is present in all modernized and developed countries. I think that Nieto is on the right track, though many will accuse him of being slow to react, I think that he is just being cautious, which is essential.  

 William Deo

Adapted from: 
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/27/world/americas/mexico-guerrero-bodies/index.html?hpt=wo_c1