Citizens Say Corruption and Crime Have Worsened Under President Pena Nieto Tihomir Gligorevic - InNews
go to original December 12, 2016

For the first half of 2016, Mexico’s murder rate rose over 15 percent compared to last year. This has prompted concern that the country’s recent gains in quelling the drug war might be slowing down. (CCTV America)

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), Mexican citizens have cited insecurity and rampant corruption as their biggest concerns presently, and a majority have said that these issues have worsened under President Enrique Peña Nieto since he assumed the presidency in December of 2012.

The study, which was made public the day before the holding of the United Nations’ International Day Against Corruption, was fully titled the National Survey on Victimization and Perception on Public Security (ENVIPE).

The survey discovered that the top two concerns voiced by Mexicans are insecurity and corruption. These two issues are fully intertwined; the opinion is that politicians and security forces, i.e. those directly responsible for the public’s safety, are corrupt and do not do their job properly as they are focused on illegally enriching themselves, which leads to impunity and insecurity.

The numbers are damning: INEGI said that homicides reported by the National Public Security System (SNSP), a federal entity linked to the Interior Ministry, in May and June were the most violent on record since 2012 when Mexico was in the midst of its “drug war.”

Drug-related violence skyrocketed when Felipe Calderón of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) took office for a six-year term in 2006 as he took a hardline stance against drug traffickers and cartels.

He ordered state police and military troops to flood Mexican towns and cities as security spending soared, and with the fallout from the violence and power vacuum, the cartels began warring with each other for territory and influence. Well over 80,000 people nationwide have lost their lives in cartel-related violence while 20,000 remain missing since 2006.

...Although Peña Nieto continues to tout his various efforts to battle insecurity and corruption, it is clear that Mexicans are growingly concerned about both issues.

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