Economics
AMLO Changes Course on Mexican Security After Record Bloodshed
- Peace forum in Ciudad Juarez focuses on justice for victims
- Homicides in Mexico reaching record-breaking levels in 2018
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, elected president of Mexico last month by a landslide, plans to use that mandate to chart a new course to addressing the nationwide surge in violent crime over the past decade.
Known as AMLO, the 64-year-old president-elect is proposing a simple yet radical departure from his predecessors’ crime-fighting policies. Rather than wage a war on crime, his administration will seek to reduce violent crime by attacking its roots, which he’s identified as poverty, corruption and impunity.