Guadalajara Reporter

To many Mexicans, this Republic presently seems to be stalled in easily foreseen, self-concocted chaos.  This is the time of disorderly municipal changes of power.  Nobody’s happy, not even in those municipios where the same party retains office with a new alcalde.

Locally, mayors are accusing one another of overspending, misuse, and unaccountability of public funds. In private, accusations are more serious.  Crimes have been committed against municipal constituents, it is said, with more to come. (The knowing speak of forgeries and kickbacks of innumerable species, destroyed files, blackmail, outright thievery, thousands of favors for the well-connected [and the abuse of those with no connections], for ruthless bosses at state, federal and legislative levels, for hustlers in the judiciary, in law enforcement, and for those manicured, glossy folk close to the summit of power.)

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