This week the Executive presented an ambitious Justice plan, a key step in improving the population’s quality of life

Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, unveiled the message "Towards a Mexico in peace, with justice, unity and development" at the National Palace, two months after the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training college. The speech outlined a plan to reduce violence, to support the central government’s institutional framework and to lay down guidelines to give citizens improved human rights protection. This comes in a context of a recent increase in insecurity, a factor which, if not brought under control, could sabotage the country’s economic performance. According to INEGI statistics, the cost of crime nationwide has fallen since 2010 from 1.6% of GDP to 1.4% in 2012. However, the 2012 figure is still a heavy burden for the country if the unmet needs of the Mexican population are borne in mind, as well as the poor status of a number of institutional components relating to public safety and the administration of justice. If the measures announced are to bear fruit and achieve their goals, it is vital that the executive has the capacity to act, in a complex scenario in which major sections of the recently passed reforms have yet to be implemented

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