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Correct. It's basically the same relationship large financial interests have with the US government. When financial interests have enough influence, they become too big to fail, meaning any "corruption" by the big players is ignored, and so isn't really corruption anymore so much as a part of government policy.

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Except there are rules, and when they are broken there are consequences. See Lehman Brothers and Enron.

Maybe there are lines in Mexico that cannot be crossed, but from an non-American perspective I struggle to see where those lines are.

Based on the 2008 bailout, it wasn't the banks who suffered the lion's share of the consequences. Maybe the difference isn't so great as we perceive

kiki camarena

> Maybe there are lines in Mexico that cannot be crossed, but from an non-American perspective I struggle to see where those lines are.

The main rule is don’t antagonize the Americans too much. The big example is Camarena who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the cartels in the 1980s. It brought such a response from the US, that the cartels in general avoid trying to kill US DEA agents.

From an open source, mexican "top cop" turns out crooked, mexico advises US to check his stateside counterparts: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-corruption/mex...

Anyone know if there have been any resulting probes, north of the border? (I didn't pick up much english just now in a quick news search, and this is not very relevant to my interests.)

I’m not sure, but my goto blog for reference on Narco news is: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/

Maybe they have more info?

It's possible Lehman Brothers went under simply because Paulson didn't like Fuld.

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