Mexico: Citizens Say Corruption and Crime Have Worsened Under Peña Nieto

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI), Mexican citizens have cited insecurity and rampant corruption as their biggest concerns presently, and a majority have said that these issues have worsened under President Enrique Peña Nieto since he assumed the presidency in December of 2012.

The study, which was made public the day before the holding of the United Nations' International Day Against Corruption (December 9), was fully titled the National Survey on Victimization and Perception on Public Security (ENVIPE).

The survey discovered that the top two concerns voiced by Mexicans are insecurity and corruption. These two issues are fully intertwined; the opinion is that politicians and security forces, i.e. those directly responsible for the public's safety, are corrupt and do not do their job properly as they...