With the millions of migrants and tons of drugs that pour over the 2,000-mile border, no country has a greater capacity to affect the United States. To do this, he intends to create a separate ministry to oversee federal police, to insulate them from politics, and make prosecutors and courts independent. He would also end the immunity that now protects officials from prosecution and set up a Transparency Commission to investigate corruption and other crimes. This housecleaning will no doubt prompt opposition from those who have benefited from the long-lived corruption that has plagued government and security forces. Historian Lorenzo Meyer says Fox needs to signal an end to impunity.
Democracy means, first of all, accountability. . . .
The government and the cartels were always linked, and there was an area where you never knew who was a trafficker and who was clean. In anticipation of the coming crackdown, traffickers will be pushing stockpiled drugs across the border as fast as they can, and corrupt politicians will be looking to grab as much money as they can. Officials believe that once targeted, they will strike back, perhaps violently. Since the PRI lost the election, they may be asking for their money back. Some suspect Mexicans are looking for cover in other ways.