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Mexico falls to 96th place in the ranking of failed states.
The safety assessment has worsened the country's rating.
It lies behind Brazil, Chile and Paraguay in stability.

There are times when taking more notice of an assessment is not good, as in the case of the annual rankings produced by the Foundation for Peace on failed states. And that's what happened to Mexico this year, which raised their score and that has dropped two places in the list reflects the stability of countries based on criteria econímicos, political and security issues.
The result leaves the country in 96th place out of 177 with a score of 76.1. In a score where higher amounts representing nations with worse levels of governance, is placed below other Latin American regions such as Paraguay, Brazil and Chile and is at "the limit" of what is considered failed state, according to published 'El Universal'.
The Peace Foundation evaluated a total of 12 points, 90 000 from public consultation that determine how stable or unstable a country. The poor performance of Mexico this year due mainly to security issues.
In paragraphs as "population pressure" (6.8), "refugee movements" (4.1) and "economic development" (8), performed best compared to the ranking of 2009 when he recorded 7, 4, 3 and 8.2 respectively.

Violation of human rights:
However, in terms of "suspension of laws and human rights violation," Mexico has been a score of 5.8, higher than 5.5 that occurred last year. The agency evaluated this paragraph specifies that "policies based on violations of the rights of innocent civilians."
In the area of "presence of state machines within the state"-in which includes the "militias, guerilla forces or private armies who wage violent campaigns against state forces" - the foundation has qualified to Mexico 7 5 Unlike 2009, when he gave a 7.
The same fall as in point of "emergence of elite factions," which according to the Foundation for Peace represents "use of nationalist rhetoric of power elites."
The list is headed by Somalia as the best example of failed state. The country, which has a rating of 114.3, is "plagued by lawlessness, pirates and chaos." In the lowest ranking, and representing the nation more stable in terms of governance is that Norway has a 18.7 rating.