[lone-star]

As a side note. To most people here, politics are always accompanied by a nasty smell of corruption. During election day, poor people are offered shirts and tortas in exchange for their votes. I still see some people with t-shirts of the PRI from the elections two years ago. There is so much money involved, I remember some friends who would support the PRD, but would still work for the PRI because they were offered compensation. Although I have no way of proving it, it wouldn't surprise me if the USA had a certain level of involvement in Mexico. Actually, the contrary would be hard to believe.

Regarding the article, we still don't know at which level were the united states implicated, or if the takedown was even justified. Still smells like corruption.

[mncolinlee]

You are correct that groups in the United States have had an enormous impact on Mexican politics. In 2003, Choicepoint was busted buying the secret Mexican voter files for the George W. Bush administration.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/05/colombia.usa

While Mexico does not have the resource curse, they are close by, in our time zones, and can provide massive labor exploitation if policies are tuned to make Mexicans desperate.