Politics: Corruption Scandals Piling Up

MEXICO - Report 18 Feb 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Ernesto Cervera

Executive Summary Graft in Mexico’s political system was once again the subject of front page headlines in the international news media last week as an extensive investigative report in The New York Times revealed questionable real estate dealings in the United States by a career politician and former governor of the state of Oaxaca and his relatives, including a son who presides over the Mexican government’s largest housing agency. As with all the high profile reports of possible corruption and conflicts of interest in recent months, those dealt with in the Times story used a familiar scri...

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