Carmen Aristegui Urges Mexico's Citizens to Take More Active Role Amid Leadership Gap Agencia EFE
go to original December 2, 2016

Prominent investigative reporter Carmen Aristegui said here Thursday at the Spanish-speaking world's leading book fair that Mexico was suffering from a lack of leadership under President Enrique Peña Nieto, but she urged ordinary citizens to become more active in public life and come up with their own solutions to the country's ills.

Asked what she thinks Peña Nieto has done for Mexico, she said the question should be rephrased.

"Why don't we talk about what we've allowed (the president) to do with the country?" Aristegui told an auditorium packed with around 1,000 people, most of them students, in a talk at the 30th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL).

"If we adjust the angle, it's much more feasible that things start to change ... If we say 'we own these public matters,'" the journalist said to rousing applause.

Aristegui criticized Mexico's decade-old war on drug gangs - a hard-line strategy adopted by Felipe Calderon, who governed Mexico from 2006-2012, and continued by Peña Nieto -, saying it has been a disastrous policy that has left tens of thousands dead and missing, made the strongest drug gangs even more powerful and led to alarming human rights violations.

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Related: Mexico Government: May Peña Nieto's Last Two Years be Better Than the Past Two (Mexico Voices)

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