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The perverted War on Drugs inflicted by the US onto Mexico and other countries could not have evolved as it did without corrupt governments in the first place.
The perverted War on Drugs inflicted by the US onto Mexico and other countries could not have evolved as it did without corrupt governments in the first place.
You are a middle level government employee that has certain responsibilities. You are sitting alone at a restaurant enjoying your lunch. A nicely dressed man sits at your table with a briefcase. He places the briefcase facing you and opens it to show $100,000 in cash. He then tells you that you can either take the money and ignore certain activities or they'll kill you and your entire family. He then places photos of your spouse and children with addresses/times of their whereabouts. He then leaves.
What do you do?
Sometimes the corrupt government thing isn't as black and white as you may think.
You are a cop in a city overrun by a major drug cartel. You are sitting alone at a restaurant enjoying your lunch. A nicely dressed man sits at your table with a briefcase. He places the briefcase facing you and opens it to show $100,000 in cash. He then tells you that you can either take the money and ignore certain activities or they'll kill you and your entire family. He then places photos of your spouse and children with addresses/times of their whereabouts. He then leaves.
What do you do?
And so on, and so on, and so on.
There are parts of the U.S that operate in the same manner. We have "bad cops" who use their position to help drug traffickers smuggle weapons and drugs. It's no different... you just hear it less in the media.