Mexican Politics: Front Runner for Presidency of Mexico Proposes: How should Mexico deal with violence?

Enrique Peña Nieto, governor of the state of Mexico, is, according to opinion polls, a leading contender to become Mexico’s next president when elections are held in 2012. The "four pillars" of his strategy are: 

1. prevention through increased government support of benefits such as health, pensions and unemployment, and improved public education. These would require major changes in tax structure and tax collection, as the ratio of Mexico's collected taxes to Gross Domestic Product is one of the lowest there is in economically developed countries. 
2. improved police and justice systems, with better investigative skills, centralization into state police departments and change to oral trials in the courts.
3. concentration of government resources in the cities most afflicted by drug related violence.
4. unity of all levels of government - local, state and national - around this strategy.

The issues posed in "pillar" 1,  2 and 4 are major ones that many Mexican political analysts have been talking about as necessary. It is a very tall order to accomplish them. 

How should Mexico deal with violence? |Financial Times – FT.com: "The biggest challenge that Mexico faces in 2011 and beyond, therefore, is to implement a National Strategy to Reduce Violence with one clear aim: to bring down the number of murders, kidnappings and extortions significantly in the next five years. The strategy should rest on four pillars." Jan. 6, 2010