[antisocial]

"The US profits too by having a prosperous politically stable country with a broad middle class to the south as we do to the north."

How will these ideas of yours solve the #1 problem of Mexico, which is massive corruption?

Corruption, payoffs, etc.

[rottndog]

How will these ideas of yours solve the #1 problem of Mexico, which is massive corruption?

I would include in that question what is to be done with the fact that much of Northern Mexico is controlled by drug cartels (the ones for which beheadings are now standard operating procedure)?

[ckilmer]

Masssive corruption is what you get when everything is off the books. Hernando de Soto estimated that 94% of Mexico's economy is informal or off the books. Hernando de soto would put everything back on the books. Its harder to cook the books.

So you wouldn't stop the corruption but you would scale it back considerably.