Poverty #9

Mexican president says poverty now first priority

In this article Mark Stevenson talks about poverty in Mexico that this will be the first priority of the Mexican president, Felipe Calderon. In the second half of his term he will be reducing poverty, after the war against drug cartels took center stage in the first three years of his administration. With the offensive bogged down amid drug-related violence in some Mexican cities, poverty increased. Next to poverty Calderon will also continue with his greatest commitment to public, job creation.
Figures published in July by the government showed that extreme poverty in Mexico — defined as people who cannot buy enough food — rose from 13.8 million in 2006 to 19.5 million in 2008, in a country of almost 107 million inhabitants. To change poverty Calderon needs to have a lot of patient. There is not only one strategy that will solve poverty, there are many factors that need to be taken in consideration so the setting of the goal to solve poverty is the start of a long and probably also expensive journey.