All of these things can be explained by the total lack of accountability and total discretionary powers of the executive to spend the money, and they don't have to explain to anyone how the money is spent. Well, the question that we have to understand here is that corruption happens everywhere in Latin America. It happens in the United States, it happens even in Canada. That has to do with the system of accountability. As the Mexican system has been for 70 years, not even military regimes are asked about the use of the national patrimony.
Mexican corruption plays the key role to understanding the nature of Mexican authoritarianism.
As much as you need to understand repression to understand a military regime, or counter insurgency as the systemic element that explains the authoritarian character of those regimes, in the Mexican case you have to look to corruption as the institutionalized process by which power is distributed, controlled and retained. So the transition in Mexico is putting all of this out into the . . . And we haven't even touched the many families that for generation after generation have been involved in business with the government, and have been government officials on and off. The Hank family is not the only one but is one of the most visible because they are very smart and they set a pattern, they established a school which others followed. They built large, large emporiums on the basis of little small and medium sized contracts from the government, contracts for transportation of products, contracts for construction, for public works, contracts on selling and buying transactions of government procurements.