Whack-a-mole: Failure to curb drug war exposes Mexico’s weakness

Failure to curb drug war exposes Mexico’s weakness | Viewpoints - Houston Chronicle: "The reason that the Mexican government has not been able to make any substantial progress is that the money generated from this illegal drug trade is estimated to be between $8.3 billion and $24.9 billion. This capital is used by criminal bosses to elect and influence officials at all levels of government.

Mexico does not have the ability to confront this political problem because it does not have a just and, more importantly, transparent institutional infrastructure necessary to enforce its own laws. The most obvious example is its notoriously weak and corrupt criminal justice system."