Mexican elections ‘could raise major frustrations’
The presidential elections in Mexico could be a major turning point in the attitude and power of the country's citizens, it has been predicted.
Gaining control and cracking down on the operations of drug cartels in the country has been a significant part of President Felipe Calderon's rule since 2006, Al Jazeera reports.
However, it is said by some commentators that a reform on policies has to be implemented to gain total control away from that of the violent drug lords.
Manuel Camacho Solis, Mexico's former secretary of foreign affairs, said: "The level of frustration that exists in Mexico, very much aggravated by the violence, is not going to be satisfied by offering a labour reform. It has to be satisfied by offering a new future."
Furthermore, Daniel Brito, of the Drug Policy Alliance, commented that the degree to which profit-making cartels engage with politics is to the level they need to continue their work within the money-earning illegal markets.
Reuters released figures today (January 3rd) that showed the death toll in Mexico due to drug-related violence has rise 6.3 per cent in the past year.
