One of Mexico’s drug cartels infiltrated the attorney general’s office and made monthly payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars to government officials. Five officials have been arrested. A cartel member also infiltrated the U.S. embassy and may have leaked information about U.S. drug enforcement operations to the cartel.
Shannon O’Neil, a specialist on Latin America at the Council on Foreign Relations, speaks with Martin Savidge about the politicized and corrupt nature of the justice system in Mexico, the possibility of a mole within the country’s U.S. embassy and the challenge of combating this corruption.
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