Mexico Can't Fix Its Criminal Justice System Alone
Mexico Can't Fix Its Criminal Justice System Alone
It's time for the government to ask for international assistance to reinforce the state’s capacity to investigate and prosecute grave crimes.
This month, facing public outrage over a spate of killings of journalists, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto responded with promises of institutional change and improved cooperation between federal and state investigators. For Mexicans, this kind of official rhetoric has become part of a time-worn routine that does little to correct the country’s national crisis of impunity. In 2016 alone, 11 journalists were killed and 426 were assaulted. Only about a quarter of these incidents even led to a police investigation; of those,...
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