Pena Nieto Begins Third Year of Presidency Amidst Credibility Crisis Agencia EFE
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Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto delivers a speech during a national broadcasting message from National Palace in Mexico City, México, 27 November 2014. (Presidency of the Republic)

MEXICO CITY - After having managed to direct national and international focus, and general approval, on his government's slate of wide-ranging structural reforms, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has begun the third year of his term mired in a serious crisis of violence and credibility.

The president's Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, returned to power after a 12-year gap on Dec. 1, 2012.

Since then it has been closely watched by the media that has followed the legislative reform process, including one landmark law that opened the energy sector to the private sector after more than seven decades of state monopoly.

The reforms have also become the focus of much political debate and social protests including in the education sector which establishes an evaluation systems for recruitment, retention and promotion for teachers and which has been opposed by a many educators reluctant to surrender their privileges.

Although the Mexican president has been praised by foreign dignitaries who visit the country, especially for the lack of violence that marked the previous government's fight against organized crime and human rights violations, recent events have put the spotlight back on violence.

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Mexico's president unveiled major changes to the country's police forces in a major address to the nation. Pena Nieto's proposal will allow Congress to dissolve local governments infiltrated by drug gangs. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reports from Iguala in Guerrero State. (Al Jazeera)

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