Mexico's rise in violence starts sticking to 'Teflon president' after a year in office
MEXICO CITY - At 7 a.m. each weekday morning, as the sun is still rising over this sprawling mountain capital, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador steps in front of a gaggle of news cameras and begins to talk.
His news conferences, which can stretch as long as three hours, often meander among a wide range of topics. On any given day he may discuss policy, baseball, the impact of neo-liberal economic policies or the history of the Spanish conquest.
Increasingly, Mexico's loquacious commander in chief has had to face one subject he'd rather not address: Mexico's spiraling violence, and growing doubts about his strategy to fix it.
Lopez Obrador, a 66-year-old populist leftist, was elected in a landslide victory last year in part
