President Enrique Pena Nieto Slumps in Polls at Home Despite Policy Wins Nick Miroff - The Washington Post
go to original April 14, 2014

After Time magazine put him on the cover of its international edition recently with the headline "Saving Mexico," a flood of ridicule and derision followed. (TIME Magazine)

Plenty of world leaders would be thrilled to have the kind of executive hot streak blazed by Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto during his first 16 months in office.

In that short span, he and his administration have steered more than a dozen major new laws through congress, overhauling the country's energy, banking and education sectors, among others.

Pena Nieto has stood up to powerful interests from Mexico's business world and underworld. He has locked up drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most wanted trafficker, quieting doubters in the United States who questioned his crime-fighting mettle.

Yet for all the praise he has won in Washington and elsewhere in the world, Pena Nieto's opening act is getting panned in the only place it really counts: Mexico.

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