Mexican Politics: What’s the Matter With Mexico: Drugs, Dinosaurs, Dithering

A critical analysis of the problems in Mexico's political system, by Denise Dresser, award winning columnist for two of Mexico’s leading journals including the Reforma newspaper andProceso weekly magazine, as well as a professor of political science at the ITAM in Mexico City. Presented at the Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

What’s the Matter With Mexico: Drugs, Dinosaurs, Dithering: "Our task – as analysts and citizens -- is to hold up a mirror so that Mexico can look as itself with the honesty it deserves. Our task is not – as President Calderon has demanded – to speak well of Mexico, but rather to understand that the most important intellectual obligation that we have has is to pay tribute to the country by criticizing its flaws --  because we know and can envision how it can be better."