Mexico’s president on Friday delivered his second-to-last state of the union, and perhaps what was most striking of his roughly 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels.
Experts and residents agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the de-facto control of drug cartels, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned gangs – and drugs – exactly zero times.
Mexico also has over 111,000 missing people, who weren’t mentioned in the speech.
Crime in general merited less than one minute of the president’s speech, which focused almost entirely on what the president viewed as successes of his administration.
Mexican president’s state of the union address suggests crime is not a problem
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