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Mary Speck: "Mexico can look to the example of Ciudad Juárez"
Mary Speck: "Mexico can look to the example of Ciudad Juárez"
Electoral Violence and Illicit Influence in Mexico’s Hot Land
Electoral Violence and Illicit Influence in Mexico’s Hot Land
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. A Test for López Obrador
    1. The Fourth Transformation
    2. Opposition Weakness
    3. Remaking the State
    4. Intra-party Divisions
  4. Crime and Elections: The Case of Michoacán
    1. In the Heartland of the “War on Drugs”
    2. The Effects of López Obrador’s Security Policies
    3. Violent Competition Around Elections
    4. The Benefits and Limits of State Access
  5. A Blueprint for the Future
  6. Conclusion
  7. Appendix A: The Tierra Caliente, Heartland of the “War on Drugs”
Podcast / Latin America & Caribbean

Mary Speck: "Mexico can look to the example of Ciudad Juárez"

Mary Speck is one of the authors of Crisis Group’s latest report on Mexico “Back from the Brink: Saving Ciudad Juárez” which examines how the Mexican government can learn from the example of Juárez to tackle and prevent organised violent crime.

Crosses set up in front of the student union at the University of Utah in remembrance of women who were killed near the U.S./Mexico border. WIKIMEDIA/Paul Fisk
Listen to Mary Speck, Crisis Group’s Mexico & Central America Project Director, describing how the citizens of Juárez, a city once dubbed the world’s “murder capital”, prepared the way for a new approach to combat organised crime. CRISIS GROUP

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