New Glimmers of Accountability

MEXICO - Report 27 Nov 2013 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary When the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) reclaimed the presidential mansion of Los Pinos after a 12-year absence following last year’s election of President Enrique Peña Nieto, there were widespread concerns we might witness a return to the opacity, corruption and lack of accountability of many PRI administrations of yesteryear. Peña publicly professed at the outset of his term of office a commitment to greater transparency and backed those promises with Pact for Mexico accords, but has failed to carry through on such promises. More alarmingly, the administration’s...

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