AMLO during the closure of his presidential campaign. Wikimedia Commons.
Among the inordinate challenges that new Mexican president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) must face up to, violence and corruption come out on top.
With more than 25,000 homicides (70 per day), 2017 was one of the bloodiest years in last decades in Mexico, a country which is among the 10 most violent in the world according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
