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(former Mexican foreign minister Jorge) Castaneda, now a New York University professor, said government on the federal level in Mexico has gotten cleaner and more transparent, but that hasn't come to the local level. Wal-Mart is "a new company in Mexico," only there 15 years, he said, and it might've made payoffs to overcome competition from local companies there 50 or 60 years.
"At the municipal level, anyone who wants to open a business, it’s difficult to get all the permits you want to get without paying off low-level officials," he said. "It's pretty hard to get anything done unless you spread money around...The quicker you want to do something, you'd better do it this way."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47144084
Government officials enriching themselves via the power of law. Pay them bribes, or you don't get your business off the ground.
(former Mexican foreign minister Jorge) Castaneda, now a New York University professor, said government on the federal level in Mexico has gotten cleaner and more transparent, but that hasn't come to the local level. Wal-Mart is "a new company in Mexico," only there 15 years, he said, and it might've made payoffs to overcome competition from local companies there 50 or 60 years.
"At the municipal level, anyone who wants to open a business, it’s difficult to get all the permits you want to get without paying off low-level officials," he said. "It's pretty hard to get anything done unless you spread money around...The quicker you want to do something, you'd better do it this way."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47144084
Government officials enriching themselves via the power of law. Pay them bribes, or you don't get your business off the ground.
