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Contributor Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe from Peru

Calderón must strengthen his presidency from the outset.

Gabriela García Calderón contributed to this post.

But Calderón doesn t want American aid on American terms.

The new president, Felipe Calderón, has spoken of the need to break up Mexico s monopolies.

Calderón took office in December 2006 under adverse circumstances.

Vallejo appears to have only narrowly edged out Calderon, who had led polls before election day.

MEXICO CITY This month, Mexico s Felipe Calderón celebrates his second anniversary as president.

The reasons for Calderón s rejection of the former arrangements now appear less self evident than before.

Calderón still does enjoy the support of the public Powell s fourth condition but he is beginning to lose it.

Given this, it is no surprise that the list of question marks attached to Calderón s administration is longer than that of his achievements.

Luisa Maria Calderon alleges that drug traffickers helped opponent Fausto Vallejo of the PRI in the governor's race.

Calderon, a candidate for her brother's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, refused to recognize Vallejo as the winner.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón has never wanted to entangle himself in Latin American disputes and ideological confrontations.

It is unclear that drug use in Mexico is extending more widely into the population alarming rates of addiction growth are misleading, because addiction starts from an extremely low base.

Calderón had tried to sell his war on drugs by insisting that he is waging it to save our children.

Three months from now, when Mexico s new president Felipe Calderón takes office, many will consider it a dubious honor.

(Calderóntook three courses from me unfortunately, dealing with violent drug lords was not on my syllabus.)

Vicente Fox took office in 2000 with a broad mandate, but, like Calderón, without a majority in Congress.

Soon, however, this became an end in itself, and Calderón proved adept at constructing short lived coalitions for largely inconsequential reforms.

In other words, since Calderón began his war on drugs, more Mexican drugs are on the market, not less.

That is what Calderón can and must do in order to render moot today s debates about the fairness of the election that brought him to power.

She notes the increase in security forces since 2006, the year in which then President Felipe Calderon launched the war on drug trafficking.

Calderón impressively overcame apparently insurmountable obstacles on the way to the presidency, yet the struggle to govern and transform Mexico has just begun.

Back then, Calderón received broad support, both domestically and from abroad, for what was viewed as a brave, overdue, and necessary decision.

Author Gabriela García Calderón in Lima, Peru, recalled sharing a house with her tía Angelita, the sister of her great grandmother, while growing up.

Needless to say, Calderón was thrilled, particularly because he had begun backing away from the emphasis his predecessor, Vicente Fox, placed on the immigration issue.

Of the more than 220,000 people arrested on drug charges since Calderón took office, three quarters have been released.

Of the more than 220,000 people arrested on drug charges since Calderón took office, three quarters have been released.

(By contrast, it turned out in November 2000 that the US had no such mechanism in place, other than the preferences of political appointees.) More recently, the current president, Felipe Calderón, has shut down the entrenched electric utility and pursued much needed tax, pension, and other reforms.

When President Felipe Calderón took office in 2006, he inherited rising violence, with drug traffickers controlling parts of the country.

Felipe Calderón of the center right ruling party, the National Action Party (PAN), is currently leading in the vote count, which must be confirmed by September.

Indeed, Colombia s Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and Brazil s Dilma Rousseff both skilled and experienced politicians were utterly unprepared for their countries protests.

Now, the same people who certified that last year s vote was free and fair, and that Calderón had indeed won, are being fired for exactly that reason.

Whatever the advantages of a cabinet comprising solely members of his Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), this is not what Calderón sought.

The National Police Force that Mexico s last three presidents Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox and Calderón have tried to build is still far from ready to replace the Army in drug enforcement tasks.

Mexico needs to grow at roughly twice the rate that it did under Fox (a meager 2 per year). If Calderón can strengthen law and order, and use his considerable political skills to reach agreement with the PRI on structural economic reforms, he will succeed.

If Calderón can strengthen law and order, and use his considerable political skills to reach agreement with the PRI on structural economic reforms, he will succeed.

Peña Nieto s predecessor, Felipe Calderón, had bequeathed him a war on drugs that had already caused more than 60,000 deaths at least another 22,000 Mexicans were missing.

Consequently, the main advocates of this approach (Calderón, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, the current and former presidents of Brazil, and America s conservatives and security establishment) are losing public support.

A PAN mayor was assassinated a week before the election as he campaigned for Luisa Maria Calderon, and numerous candidates quit local races out of fear.

According to the US government s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR), opium, heroin, and marijuana seizures have decreased since Calderón began his drug war, and drug production in Mexico is on the rise. In 2008, according to the US State Department, potential heroin production reached 18 metric tons, up from 13 metric tons in 2006, as production of opium gum rose to 149 metric tons, from 110 metric tons.

Calderón decided, in late 2006, that accommodation was no longer tolerable the violence had gotten out of control the corruption and complicity had infected the nation s police and political elite and Mexico had become a major producer of methamphetamines for the US, as well as a significant consumer of cocaine.

A minority of four ministers, including the President of the Court, Juan Silva Meza, considered that President Felipe Calderon did not exceed his authority by issuing a decree detailing the actions to take in order to achieve the transition to the digital terrestrial television.