Mexico president vows police reform in bid to quell massacre anger

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By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Embattled President Enrique Pena Nieto on Thursday vowed to simplify Mexico's chaotic police structure and stop collusion between officials and drug gangs as he tried to defuse anger over the apparent massacre of 43 students in September. Pena Nieto is under growing pressure from protesters to end impunity and brutality by security forces since the trainee teachers were abducted by corrupt police and handed over to a local drug gang in the southwestern city of Iguala on Sept. 26. ...




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[Remington 1858]

Every Mexican President has pledged police reform; it never happens. There is corruption at every level in the Mexican Police starting right at the top in the Ministry of Justice. This is the result of PRI rule in Mexico for most of the twentieth century and now starting again in this century. The system is so corrupt that an honest official cannot survive. They will be driven out or killed. There is no way to fix the government internally.
The country needs a revolutionary change and in Mexico that always means violence.