Earlier
this year, I wrote about the Mexican presidential elections and the massive
wave of protests they inspired. Yet in his first few months in office, Enrique
Peña Nieto has taken impressive steps that have led many to be cautiously
optimistic for Mexico’s future. Despite the ongoing drug war, which saw an
equal number of kidnappings under Peña Nieto as under his predecessor in the
same period, the new president has enacted educational reform, arrested a
famously corrupt teacher’s union leader, made a cross-party “Pact for Mexico,”
and brought privatization of the state oil company PEMEX to the table. He has also initiated an investigation into the over 27,000 people
who were “disappeared” during Felipe Calderon’s presidency.
"La Maestra:" Elba Esther Gordillo, teacher's union leader arrested for embezzlement
