Security Challenges Threaten Elections In Guerrero, Mexico
Security Challenges Threaten Elections In Guerrero, Mexico
By
Nathaniel Parish Flannery
Security problems in Guerrero will provide a serious test for Mexico’s elections.
In late 2014 and early 2015, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party—PRI) faced violent protests and demands for his resignation after the disappearance of 43 student teachers in the town of Iguala in Mexico’s southwestern Guerrero state.
The turbulence led some academics, such as John Ackerman, to hastily predict the beginning of “a second Mexican revolution.”
Six months...
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