Corruption In Mexico Essay

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In recent years Mexico has been trying to fix the corruption that is infesting their government for decades. In 2012 Mexico elected a new President, Peña Nieto, who is proving people’s optimistic views wrong so far. In the last 3 years that the Peña Nieto government has been in office his government has suppressed people’s write to freedom of speech, cause a teacher’s strike, there seems to be no improvements, despite studies proving there is a way to decrease the amount of corrupt acts.
First, in “The Struggle to Democratize Education in Mexico” María Lemus describes the government’s failure to control and implement an actual working policy for teachers in Mexico. Peña Nieto’s government so far has only enforced policies that weaken job security,
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Tyburski’s “The Resource Curse Reversed? Remittances and Corruption in Mexico” he investigates the use of remittances throughout Mexico and the subsequent effect of corruption in the state. Using a six-year long data bank Tyburski studied the amount of remittances that Mexico received and cross checked it with the amount of reported corrupt acts. Tyburski determined that over a span of at least a few months the states that received a remittance from the federal government, or the World Bank, had a slight decrease in corrupt acts (Tyburski, 2012). Unfortunately for Mexico this is not a method that will result in a significant reduction of corruption, but it is enough worth noting that there is a pattern in remittances and corruption in Mexico. The negative aspects of this solution is it is not up to Mexico as to how much money they receive from the World Bank. The World Bank does give more than 50% of their total remittances to middle-income country, which does include Mexico but they are not the only country in need of money (Tyburski, 2012). Another problem with receiving remittances is the federal government cannot and will not allocate majority of that money to states. A deeper problem than corruption in state government is the corruption in federal governments. How can it be expected that the federal government will give away the money to individual

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