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How Mexico's Anti-Corruption Fight Went Off-Track

By Viridiana Rios

More than a year after a major civil society victory, Mexico's government has yet to clean up its act.

Eighteen months ago, I wrote in AQ about the success of Mexico's citizen-driven corruption fight in Congress. Civil society groups, academics and activists had pushed for the rejection of a watered-down anti-corruption bill and instead presented their own, sharpened version of the legislation. This citizen's bill, called #Ley3de3 (or #Law3of3) promised not only to help identify, punish and prevent corruption, but to do so...

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