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In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.