Tina Rosenberg
New York Times
September 19, 2003
Mexico: Presidents who come to office promising to fight graft almost always fail ?occasionally leaving office several million dollars richer themselves. Arrests are made ?but often only of political rivals. Anticorruption campaigns come and go ?and still it requires a 30 percent payoff to build a highway, buildings fall down because inspectors are bribed and drivers prepare for an assault on their wallets when they see a cop.