Grappling with Protests, Mexico President Urges Swift Judicial Reform Simon Gardner, Michael O'Boyle and Gabriel Stargardter - Reuters
go to original November 22, 2014

There have been clashes in Mexico City, as thousands of people took to the streets to protest at President Enrique Pena Nieto's handling of the disappearance of 43 students. Wyre Davies reports. (BBC News)

MEXICO CITY - Embattled President Enrique Peña Nieto has called on Mexico's states to swiftly adopt steps to modernize the justice system as he tries to defuse mass protests over the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers.

Peña Nieto is facing the deepest crisis of his presidency after the students' abduction in late September by rogue police in league with drug gang members shone a light on chronic corruption and impunity.

Those woes have been compounded by a conflict-of-interest scandal after his family home was found to belong to a company that was part of a Chinese-led consortium awarded a major high speed rail contract.

"Society is rightly sick of feeling vulnerable. It is tired of impunity and crime," Peña Nieto said on Friday, vowing to push for a more transparent, trustworthy justice system in Mexico.

"The Mexican state has a decades-old debt with its citizens, and it's time to pay it."

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