The Conversation

Tue Jan 29

Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?

Written by Angélica Durán-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador with the families of the 43 students who went missing in 2014 in Guerrero state. He has ordered a truth commission to investigate the unsolved disappearance.Reuters/Edgard Garrido

Nearly 34,000 people were murdered in Mexico last year, according to new government statistics — the...

Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?

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