Keeping His Spies Close, and Maybe a Cartel Closer

“Keeping His Spies Close, and Maybe a Cartel Closer - http://nyti.ms/cUIEM9 Mayor Mauricio Fernandez--Smart or corrupt?”

"Mauricio Fernández is such a mayor, and his stormy six months in office here have been marked by scandal and unexpected twists. “If the devil gives me information, I buy it,” he said recently, explaining how a well-known drug dealer came to be his informant."

"In a nation of the blind the one eyed man . . ."

There is so much money flowing into Mexico that the entire government is corrupt.

Protecting the already wealthy is a way to power.