Mexican president’s state of the union avoids drugs, violence despite high levels

Mexico’s president on Friday delivered his second-to-last state of the union, and perhaps what was most striking of his roughly 1 1/2 hour speech was what he didn’t talk about: drugs, crime or drug cartels.

Experts and residents agree that wide swaths of Mexico are under the de-facto control of drug cartels, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador mentioned gangs — and drugs — exactly zero times.

Mexico also has over 111,000 missing people, who weren’t mentioned in the…