Article Photos: Mexico enacts law to help victims of crime



  Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, hug each other during an event to enact a general law on victims of crime at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The law requires local and federal authorities to compensate victims by covering their health and psychiatric care costs and it mandates the creation of a relief fund and a national registry of victims of crime. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, leader of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, hug each other during an event to enact a general law on victims of crime at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The law requires local and federal authorities to compensate victims by covering their health and psychiatric care costs and it mandates the creation of a relief fund and a national registry of victims of crime. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)