A poll published Friday in Excelsior newspaper found 50 percent of respondents feared the government was on the brink of losing control. [...]Security is the top concern for Mexicans, and Fox has struggled to reform Mexico's notoriously corrupt police. Meanwhile, drug-related bloodshed has accelerated, with some cities seeing killings almost daily.
In April, suspected drug lords posted the heads of two police officers on a wall outside a government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco.
Beheadings in Acapulco? The Tourist Board can't be happy about that.