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...hard to feel safe in a lot of places in Mexico, despite the best efforts of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. The Acteal bloodbath is just the latest instance of what sometimes appears to be the virtual collapse of public security in the country. From the slums of Tijuana to the hilltop mansions of Mexico City, a rising wave of violent crime, kidnappings and human- rights atrocities has gripped the nation. Many refer to it as the "Colombianization" of the country, a reference to the even scarier levels of violence inspired by drug mafias and paramilitary gangs in that...
...most outrageous part is the role the police and military thugs are believed to play in the crime wave. Last week the Zedillo government had more than 40 people, including Acteal's mayor, Jacinto Arias Cruz, behind bars for their involvement in the massacre. Some of the accused killers reportedly have ties to local and state police. Much of the Mexican public was calling for the resignation of Chiapas Governor Julio Cesar Ruiz Ferro, who showed no signs of complying. By Saturday, though, the crisis had claimed interior minister Emilio Chuayffet, who resigned amid charges that he had ignored...
Groping for solutions, Zedillo has put the military in charge of police agencies. The results so far have been disastrous. Last February the President had to order the arrest of his new antidrug czar for being in the pay of a major drug lord...
...Nuevo Leon, an industrial state on the U.S. border. Most important, the P.R.I. lost its majority in the lower house of the national congress for the first time since the party was founded 68 years ago. This tectonic shift in federal power could hamstring the administration of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, a staunch U.S. ally, and possibly sweep his party out of office when a presidential election is held...
...become more open to outside influences than ever before--thanks in large part to NAFTA. That has given young people in particular access to different standards and values by which to measure the old order. And the young resent the inequities they see. Today's free-market rulers, like Zedillo and former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, sport Ivy League Ph.D.s. But Guadalajara lawyer Cristina Organista, 25, saw her dream of graduate study in the U.S. canceled by the peso crisis. "My family's aspirations went from sending me abroad to simply saving our house," she says...