Battle Over Impunity Requires Stiff Convictions for Corrupt Politicians Followed By Time in Prison Austin Bay - Townhall
go to original May 3, 2017

Last month was a bad month for crooked state governors in Mexico, which means April 2017 was a potentially promising month for Mexican citizens disgusted with the culture of impunity.

For outraged Mexicans, the word "impunity" signifies the deep injustice and corruption embedded within their nation's governing institutions. Mexico's politically-connected and wealthy can commit horrendous crimes and then avoid accountability. They steal - and even kill - with "impunity."

Impunity has become a political problem for President Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party. As a presidential candidate in 2012, Pena promised to reform government and to penalize corruption. Then 2014 arrived with revelations that he and his wife had acquired luxury homes, with the help of wealthy media and business big shots.

The Iguala Massacre crystallized public distrust. In September 2014, the mayor of Iguala (Guerrero state) and his wife ordered corrupt police to make certain 43 student protestors did not disrupt a political fiesta. The police and a local drug gang allegedly killed the students. The mayor and Guerrero's state governor were both PRI politicians. The governor was a political ally of President Pena.

The mayor and his wife were finally arrested. The governor resigned his office. However, the government's shoddy investigation convinced many citizens the PRI had returned to its bad old ways.

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Related: Mexico’s Runaway Governors Help a Tradition of Corruption Thrive (America Magazine)

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