Though Mired in Deepening Crisis, Mexico's Pena Nieto Unlikely to Be Ousted Dave Graham - Reuters
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Protesters hold up posters that read in Spanish “Pena Out!” during a march to pressure the government into finding 43 missing college students, Mexico City. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

MEXICO CITY - Deep anger over the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers has plunged Mexico's Enrique Pena Nieto into his worst crisis as president, but with no credible opposition in sight, mass protests look unlikely to force him from power.

Since the students were abducted by police and handed over to a local drug gang in the southwestern city of Iguala on Sept. 26, a wave of discontent has hit the government, spurring calls at protests and on social media for Pena Nieto to step down.

Pena Nieto has accused unnamed groups of trying to destabilize the government but the public fury is widespread.

Although the protests have been largely peaceful, some demonstrators have clashed with police and even set fire to the door of the ceremonial presidential palace in Mexico City.

Still, the fall of a president would be unprecedented in modern Mexico. And for all the public indignation, no figurehead has emerged to channel the anger and present an alternative.

"You need leaders to start a revolution - and there aren't any," said Mexico City salesman Francisco Aleman, 31, who wants the government out. "The opposition are really divided, so there's no easy way to bring down Pena Nieto."

The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, has campaigned against human rights abuses in the past but its reputation is in tatters because the Iguala mayor who allegedly ordered the students' abduction was one if its own.

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