Mexico was once accustomed to crises (even if it hasn’t had one for 20 years); but they typically erupted at the end of a presidential term. Peña Nieto has four more years in office, and he is constrained by the political elite that brought him to power from implementing the drastic measures – a cabinet reshuffle, criminal accountability for corruption and human-rights violations, and radical judicial reforms – that Mexico needs.
危机对墨西哥而言曾经是家常便饭（虽然危机已有近20年未在墨西哥上演）；但危机爆发时总统任期往往接近尾声。培尼亚·涅托的任期还有四年，他受制于让他登上权力巅峰的政治精英而无法实施墨西哥真正需要的严厉政策——内阁改组、追究腐败和侵犯人权行为的刑事责任，以及积极推进司法改革。