Reading up on Mexican Security

I just started La Urgente Seguridad Democrática: La Relación de México con Estados Unidos (which means basically what it looks like from the cognates) by Abelardo Rodrígues Sumano. Rodríguez Sumano studied international relations at a number of eminent American institutions, which means readers get lots of sentences like the following:

Therefore, our study is based on the theory of international relations in general and the sub-discipline of security in particular, with the object of delineating our language and defining the form in which the history, idiosyncrasy and plurality of a nation influence the character of the security policies that are expressed in the type of political regime so as to abandon ambiguity and give greater force to the arguments.

Ugh. It's like wading through a swamp. But I heartily agree with the thesis of the book, or what appears to be the thesis after the first 25 pages or so, that "Vicente Fox wasted a historic opportunity to develop a national security policy that would put the interests of Mexico ahead of the party, the administration, and the factions." Fox is often lambasted for not moving any big pieces of legislation, but this was just was an equally significant failing. Mexico could really use a bipartisan security consensus along the lines of the United States' containment, some basic framework to shepherd the nation through the next decade or two or three. I don't really think Calderón is working to build it either, though he's hardly alone in his responsibility for a lack of consensus.