On the campaign trail last year, Pena Nieto vowed to reduce violence and said he'd take a different tack -- an election promise that played well with voters in a country weary of a drug war witha growing bodycount.
It's politics as burlesque (Bush laying the groundwork on a fly-swept Texan stroll with his closest advisers -- but somehow getting lost in his own backyard), witha mounting bodycount in the background.
With drugs being tested on cancer patients, he notes, the "FDA insists on abodycount to be able to quantify how much and how long the new drug improves survival" even though diagnostic markers can sometimes reveal in advance which patients are unlikely to gain a benefit.