Let’s face it, politicians in Mexico are corrupt to the core and American politicians aren’t much better, if any. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that Pena-Nieto’s campaign was financed - at least in part - by shell companies connected to the Juarez Cartel.
One needs only look at the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio (a populist candidate for president) in 1994, the connection of the assassin to Jorge Hank-Rhon (see links below), the Hank family’s ownership - direct and indirect - of dozens of such shell companies, their as-yet-”unproven” connection to drug trafficking and their well-known (among some) connection to some very recognizable American politicians - including the Bush family) to understand that this is only scratching the surface of the depth of cross-border political corruption.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mexico/family/bergman.html
http://www.elandar.com/bush/amigos.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/01/business/big-us-fine-for-mexican-in-bank-case.html
And here’s a link to a prior post on FR:
http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-chat/3377655/replies?c=50
Agreed, Mexico is a political nightmare. I don’t know how to explain it. It as if their choice is always a corrupt middle of the road person, a corrupt communist, a corrupt socialist or a good guy who someone is going to murder to make sure they never get elected.
And the corruption is deep at every level you can think of. I have no idea how they can clean it up.
Add to that the illegals coming up from Central America and those flying or boating in to make their way to the US and they have a real mess.