News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, August 11, 2006

Bribery a way of life in Mexico

By Marla Dickerson
Los Angeles Times
MEXICO CITY

Corruption remains a huge obstacle to Mexico's advancement. It is a hidden tax that stifles job creation and economic growth, erodes respect for law and order and poisons citizens' trust in their institutions.

To be sure, corruption is a global phenomenon affecting rich nations as well as poor ones. Witness the waste and fraud of the federal payouts from Hurricane Katrina in the United States.

But in Mexico, it is an ongoing disaster. Mexican officials have estimated that as much as 9 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product is siphoned off annually to corruption. In 2005 that would have amounted to $69 billion, or more than the nation spends on education and defense combined.

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