||1:However impressive Mr Peaa’s economic reforms, Mexico will never manage to achieve its considerable potential without an honest, efficient criminal-justice system.||2:Its democracy will lose legitimacy if its politicians continue to tolerate graft.||3:Mr Peaa’s domestic critics say that he is a skin-deep moderniser , steeped in his party’s bad old ways.||4:Now is the time for him to prove them wrong.
The ambiguity of Mr Modi’s beliefs only deepens the danger. He campaigned at the election in 2014 as a moderniser , who would bring jobs and prosperity to India. But, his critics charge, all his talk of development and reform is simply the figleaf for a lifelong commitment to a divisive Hindu-nationalist agenda.