Although the government boasts a sharp drop in homicides, the rise in disappearances, the expansion of criminal control, and territorial violence paint a far more alarming picture.
The violence that followed the recent events in Jalisco speaks not only of a criminal organization, but of the state's capacity—and its limits—to manage power vacuums.
Mexico reduced poverty without extraordinary economic growth: it did so by challenging the idea that the market, on its own, guarantees social progress.
