* In a total of 14 Latin American countries. The source does not provide the exact number of respondents in each country surveyed.
During the survey, the following open question was posed: "¿Cuál dirÃa usted que es el principal problema de su paÃs actualmente?".
The wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the original.
During a survey carried out in June and July of 2019, more than half (55 percent) of the opinion leaders and prominent journalists surveyed in Mexico stated that insecurity, criminality and drug trafficking were the most important problems in the country. Corruption was the second most cited issue, mentioned by one quarter of Mexican interviewees. In fact, the number of organized-crime related homicides in Mexico has been escalating lately.
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Ipsos. (October 29, 2019). Most important problems affecting Mexico according to opinion leaders and journalists in 2019 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 08, 2026, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1071904/mexico-main-problems-opinion-leaders-journalists/
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