What Good Can Another Crusade Against Corruption and Impunity do for Mexico? Rafa Fernandez De Castro - Fusion
go to original June 13, 2016

Mexico’s latest anti-corruption crusade is being led by a group of prominent social activists, lawyers, journalists and academics that have created an NGO aptly named “Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity.”

At a time where many see Mexico as a time bomb of social outrage, the group is trying to show that change is still possible by encouraging citizens to continue the fight against corruption within the framework of the system. And they’re willing to bankroll that effort. The NGO is setting itself apart from other anti-corruption efforts by promising to fund and coordinate lawsuits, journalistic investigations, academic reports and media campaigns to expose and combat corrupt politicians of all stripes.

The group was specifically created to address Mexico’s so called “culture of corruption,” which is having huge political, economic and social repercussions. Corruption is not only hampering the country’s ability to compete in global markets, according to the 2015-2016 World Economic Forum report, but pushing Mexicans to increasingly mistrust their institutions, further weakening rule of law. The 2016 Global Impunity index ranks Mexico second to last on a list of 59 countries - a situation that some warn could bring Mexico’s frustration to a boil in the form of a violent uprising, the rise of a Mexican demagogue, or a Brazil-like scenario of political upheaval.

But Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity insists the system can be fixed by exerting enough pressure on the country’s ruling class.

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