Any political scientist will tell you that the definition of a failed
state is where the legitimate authorities have lost both their monopoly over violence and their fiscal effectiveness -- the capacity to compel their subjects to pay enough taxes so the state can function.
Mexico is a failing state on both counts. While all our attention
is focused on Iraq, our neighbor is descending into Hobbesian
chaos.
With democracy, the corruption that had resided within the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) during...
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