Jan-Albert Hootsen: Is Enrique Pena Nieto the Savior of Mexico? Not So Much Jan-Albert Hootsen - Vocativ
go to original September 23, 2014

Enrique Peña Nieto graced TIME magazine's cover earlier this year. (TIME Magazine)

He appeared on the cover of Time magazine with the triumphant headline “Saving Mexico.” Foreign Policy called him one of the “Leading Global Thinkers of 2013.” Newspapers around the globe have lauded him as “historic,” “bold” and “audacious.” Everyone, it seems, loves Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

That is, except his own people.

Last month, the Pew Hispanic Center, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., published some startling numbers. Only 51 percent of Mexicans think the president is doing a good job, down 6 percentage points since last year. During the same time period, negative opinions of him rose 9 points to 47 percent. So less than two years into his first term, Peña Nieto is less popular than his two predecessors, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, were at the same stage of their presidency.

So why is there such a stark contrast between how the president is seen at home and how he’s seen abroad?

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