Resumen de Mexico at bay? Corrupt crossroads.
Inquiring into the length, breadth, and depth of corruption in Mexico, this piece examines historical, institutional, and cultural contexts for an answer, only to find it in the overlap of all three domains: a discursive Iberian inheritance that elevates friendship-based over pragmatic governance, a truncated institutional setting whose reform measures easily get trumped by idiosyncratic interventions, and an extended-family cluster of cultural values more receptive to subjective than objective dispensation. The net result not only worsens Mexico�s corruption ranking each year, but also threatens to spread beyond its borders.
