High Anxiety in the Andes

As Latin America suffers from its worst economic crisis in decades, the reform of political institutions remains the region’s best hope.

Mexico’s 2003 congressional elections confirmed both the transition to fully competitive politics and the persistence of structural deficiencies associated with a multiparty presidential system.

In recent years, Mexico has stumbled into an encounter with collective violence, this time in the form of the “drug war.” Among its many harms is the damage it is…