The Mexican government released its most recent figures on poverty amid triumphant speeches by President Enrique Peña Nieto, who, like his predecessors Calderón and Fox, claims that Mexico will grow and take its place among the world’s most powerful economies because of the long-awaited structural reforms under discussion in Congress. Today Mexico’s economy ranks 13th or 14th worldwide.
Although the government claims to have reduced the percentage of people living in poverty, the actual number…