Simon Schatzberg

Left­ist politi­cian has promised to stamp out cor­rup­tion and sub­due drug car­tels, but re­mains vague on pol­i­cy de­tails.

Mex­i­cans liv­ing out­side coun­try blame lack of in­for­ma­tion and un­nec­es­sary ob­sta­cles on low par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Rights groups and fam­i­lies wor­ry new law that reg­u­lates and ex­pands mil­i­tary’s polic­ing pow­ers ‘will make things worse’.

Res­i­dents of south­ern Mex­i­can city say tra­di­tion takes on a new mean­ing af­ter Sep­tem­ber’s dead­ly tremor.

Res­i­dents of a town out­side of Mex­i­co City wor­ry it will take years to re­build their lives af­ter 7.1 tremor last month.

NAF­TA led to up­heaval in Mex­i­can coun­try­side as cheap grains pro­duced by high­ly sub­sidised US farms flood­ed mar­kets.

Sud­den spike in fuel prices sparks ri­ots, loot­ing, and ar­rests of hun­dreds of demon­stra­tors as gov­ern­ment holds firm.