I spent several years of my life writing a book about law in Ancient Mexico and while I was doing so, traveled widely throughout the country. I spent some more years of my life researching and writing a book about the war on drugs. So, it was no surprise, when I read last week that an army general who headed Mexico's national drug agency was being detained and awaiting arrest on charges that he accepted huge payments from a Mexican drug baron. The extent and pervasiveness of official corruption in Mexico is difficult to explain to anyone who hasn't lived there.
Corruption is everywhere and widely accepted as a fact of life.
You pay the mordida. You pay the mordida. You pay the mordida. And, there's no point in protesting it. The question is not whether you'll pay.