Mexico sees itself today on the brink of change. The new president, the silver-haired Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has a mandate to renew the country’s politics, awarded to him by a people exasperated with poverty, outrageous inequality and corruption in daily life, and pervasive, brutal violence.
López Obrador’s accession follows the bloodiest 12 months in the bloodiest decade since the Mexican revolution. So what are his options in the wake of the catastrophic “war on drugs”, lost to the tune of up to 250,000 Mexican lives since December 2006, with another 30,000 people missing? Mexican society itself has become brutalised, beyond even the narco-bloodletting, and the crimes that blight daily life are committed with shocking levels of impunity.
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