Mexico’s new president has outlined a security strategy aimed at reducing drug war-related violence that, rhetorically at least, contrasts starkly with the emphasis his predecessor placed on using force to go after the cartels.

“Our primary objectives are reducing the violence and recuperating the peace and tranquility of Mexicans,” President Enrique Peña Nieto told state governors, military and security chiefs gathered at a public meeting of the national security council on Monday.

“We are going to focus institutional efforts on attending to the [social] causes of the criminal phenomenon and not only its consequences,” he said.

via Mexico changes stance in drug war – but little difference seen from Calderón | World news | guardian.co.uk.