Mexico's presidential elections are coming up in July of 2011. The current president's, Felipe Calderón, opposing party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), is already planning their campaign strategy. Rather than focusing on fighting organized crime by sending aggressive assaults on drug cartels as Calderon has done, the PRI wants to shift the attention to improving the economy and reducing poverty. Mexico suffered one of the worst recessions in the American continent, placing millions of Mexican's below the poverty level. The PRI beliefs that by focusing on the economy, they can lighten both the country's poverty issue and the problems inflicted by the drug cartels. If Mexico's economy continues to grow, more people will be pulled out of poverty and more young men will have jobs therefore discouraging them from joining drug cartels.
-Gilberto Perez
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