Mexican police play havoc with president's security pledge

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Restoring order to a country torn apart by drug violence was Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's first promise when he took power two years ago, but corruption and police brutality have handed him the biggest crisis of his rule.

Local police abducted 43 trainee teachers in the southwestern city of Iguala on Sept. 26 and handed them over to a drug gang. The gang almost certainly murdered them and torched their bodies, the government says.