The Challenge of Mexico’s Next President: The Corruption at the Heart of Crime (Time)

By Alfonso Serrano, published in Time

Enrique Peña Nieto has issued several proposals about battling the plague of narcoterrorism. But he hasn’t yet said how he will deal with the a key element of the crisis: the corrupting influence of money

Mexico’s old guard is officially the new guard again. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for seven decades with an authoritarian hand, is back after a 12-year hiatus. But can the new face of the party — president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto — deal with a national landscape ravaged by a militarized battle against organized crime, one that has led to comparisons to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?