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Mexico’s Amazing Year
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Spare a thought for Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto. After engineering an ambitious among Mexico’s three major political parties, he whirled through his first year in office rewriting laws on everything from energy to television and education to elections. Yet Mexico’s economic performance in 2013 was disappointing, and Mexico’s businesses and foreign investors aren’t exactly exuberant. It’s enough to damp a reformer’s spirits.
These are early days for Pena Nieto’s new policies, and the