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Neither immigration nor Islamic extremism are impossible to deal with.
移民問題和伊斯蘭恐怖主義都不是不可能解決的
Join me now on one last trip, this time to Mexico.
現在跟我來看看最后的這個例子，這一次我們轉向墨西哥
Now, of our three stories, this one probably surprised me the most,
在所有三個故事中，這一個可能是最令我驚訝的
since as you all know, the country is still struggling with so many problems.
正如你們所知，這個國家仍然在跟很多問題做斗爭
And yet, a few years ago, Mexico did something
然而，幾年前墨西哥做了一件
that many other countries from France to India to the United States can still only dream of.
很多其它國家，從法國、印度到美國，現在仍然只能夢想的事情
It shattered the political paralysis that had gripped it for years.
那是它打破了困擾了好多年的政治僵局
To understand how, we need to rewind to the year 2000, when Mexico finally became a democracy.
要想理解的它是怎樣做到的，我們需要倒回到2000年，那時墨西哥終于成為了一個民主國家
Rather than use their new freedoms to fight for reform, Mexico's politicians used them to fight one another.
墨西哥的政客們不是利用新獲得的自由去推動改革，而是利用它們去互相攻擊。
Congress deadlocked, and the country's problems --
國會陷入僵持，而這個國家面臨的問題——
drugs, poverty, crime, corruption-- spun out of control.
毒品、貧困、犯罪、腐敗--都失去了控制
Things got so bad that in 2008, the Pentagon warned that Mexico risked collapse.
到了2008年，情況已經變得非常糟糕了，五角大樓警告說墨西哥有崩潰的風險
Then in 2012, this guy named Enrique Pena Nieto somehow got himself elected president.
然后到了2012的年，這個叫做恩里克·培尼亞·涅托的家伙，不知怎么的選上了總統
Now, this Pena hardly inspired much confidence at first.
這個培尼亞一開始就艱難地激發了人們的自信心。
Sure, he was handsome, but he came from Mexico's corrupt old ruling party, the PRI, and he was a notorious womanizer.
當然，他很帥，他來自墨西哥腐敗的舊執政黨，革命制度黨，并且是一個臭名昭著的花花公子
In fact, he seemed like such a pretty boy lightweight
事實上，他看起來完全像是一個無足輕重的小人物
that women called him "bombon," sweetie, at campaign rallies.
在競選集會上婦女們叫他夾心巧克力，親愛的
And yet this same bombón soon surprised everyone by hammering out a truce between the country's three warring political parties.
而就是這個夾心巧克力很快就通過讓這個國家三個互相爭斗的政黨達成休戰協議而令人刮目相看。
