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I wonder what Lynch would be doing with his life if he had been born in Mexico, or any country in the world other than the United States for that matter.

Probably playing soccer at high level.

I wonder what Lynch would be doing with his life if he had been born in Mexico, or any country in the world other than the United States for that matter.

Doubtful. Many of his physical attributes that allow him to be an elite NFL running back are either irrelevant in soccer (e.g. upper body strength) and some might even be downright harmful (e.g. explosive athletes tend to be quite bad with endurance, due to the characteristics of fast-twitch muscle fibers.)

That's fine in a game where the ball is live for 11 minutes, and the offense might be on the field for 5 of that... and you can get subbed out when you're tired. Soccer has a bigger aerobic contribution and selects for different types of athletes.

Being athletic is god given, not developed. So if he started off playing soccer or a boxing, or cricket, his body would have developed for the particular sport and he still would have the god given athleticism that makes him elite.

Shhhhh ... we can’t talk about that ....

And dont bring up what happens to ILLEGALS in their country .... another taboo subject .... doesn’t fit their agenda well ...

You brought up a good subject, maybe not in this topic, but a good one. I absolutely hate when people say racism is just an effect of the class structure, when clearly it is not as it expands across the world.

Goodness sakes.

I thought people from Mexico were Mexicans. Then I found out they weren't, they were Hispanic.

Well,actually they are Latin, Hispanis is derived from Hispanioa, the Carribean island.

I dont know , my Puerto Rican friends call themselves Ricans

so I do too

After that I have no idea

It's too complicated for me. I have a friend that - well his dad is from P.R., his mom is a "native" white American (can I even use that term? Or will I get blasted for that?)

He calls himself an American. With P.R. roots.

He doesn't call himself a P.R. american. His skin is brown - but he doesn't call himself a brown american............damn......I don't know what to call anyone anymore. I'm just a bad white person I guess.

Swish,

You really believe that sitting for the US national anthem in protest over police brutality and standing (i.e. showing respect for, especially considering you were just sitting) for the Mexican national anthem, despite Mexican police being far more corrupt, oppressive, and brutal, isn't being hypocritical (at best)?

You say it's because he's protesting US issues, and not Mexican issues.... so police oppression of minorities only occurs in the US? Or, we only care about it in the US, and not elsewhere?

I dunno, man. I'm trying really hard to see it from the other side (as much as I'm able to understand this, at least), but I'm just having a really hard time understanding how this sit-stand instance fits with the larger narrative.

Mexico’s corruption problems are still among the world’s deepest


Mexico has struggled with corruption for a long, long time, but recent events indicate that the situation is now at a truly intolerable pitch.

This spring, two fugitive state governors were arrested in a joint operation by Interpol and the Mexican police. Javier Duarte, who was captured in Guatemala, served six years as governor of the state of Veracruz, during which he allegedly misappropriated 233m pesos (US$12m) of public funds. Tomás Yarrington, onetime governor of the state of Tamaulipas, was arrested in Italy; he stands accused of co-operating with an extremely dangerous drug gang known as the Gulf Cartel. Both men are former members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, now led by Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto.

This is not a novelty. Back in 1987, Gabriel Zaid’s book La economía presidencial put it as bluntly as could be: “Corruption is not a disagreeable characteristic of the Mexican political system: it is the system.”

Corruption has its roots not in any particular culture or history, but in human nature. It is present in some form in every community and every country. But where corruption pervades all levels of the state, as it does in Mexico, it creates an environment in which other forms of crime can thrive.

This is particularly true when it comes to organised crime, which if left unchecked can start a cycle of bribery and impunity. The sheer magnitude of illicit funds that major criminal organisations accrue allows them to readily bribe susceptible public authorities; this, in turn, gives them near-free reign for criminal activities such as drug trafficking, pimping and extortion, all of which raise more money.

This cycle can become almost impossible to break, and as honest citizens fall victim to violent crimes and watch their governments do nothing to stop them, they start to lose faith in their society’s institutions.

The cycle continues

This is what’s happened in much of Mexico, which was ranked 123rd among 176 countries in the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index. On a scale of zero (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean), it came in at a poor 30. Some use the term narco-state to describe the open corruption between the Mexican political system and drug cartels, especially at the local level.

It’s hard to forget the horrifying 2014 kidnap and presumed murder of 43 students in the state of Guerrero. A goverment-appointed panel found that the students, who may well have been targeted for their left-wing activism, were brutally attacked and abducted by local police officers in league with members of the criminal organisation known as Guerreros Unidos.

Then there’s now-extradited drug lord Joaquín Guzmán, also known as El Chapo, who made various escapes from what were supposed to be Mexico’s most secure prisons with the help of prison officers. But events of this sort are not uncommon in Mexico: just this spring, Juan Jose Esparragoza Monzon, the son of another Mexican drug lord, escaped from prison with four compatriots.


Protesting for the return of the 43 students kidnapped in 2014. EPA/Ulises Ruiz Basurto
The effects of systemic corruption extend far beyond these individual cases. The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness calculated that each year corruption costs the country between 2% and 10% of its GDP, reduces foreign investment by 5%, and wipes out 480,000 jobs from small and medium-sized businesses. It frustrates any sense of meritocracy, resulting in a serious brain drain that severely depletes Mexico’s skilled labour force.

Above all, corruption eats into the security of human rights, whether civil, political, economic, social and cultural. And its criminal perpetrators use the most brutal of methods to escape scrutiny: 62% of journalists murdered in Mexico since 1992 had investigated cases of corruption, political or otherwise, and 86% of these homicides have gone unpunished.

The long haul

The reasons for this sad state of affairs are many and complex. High up the list is the historical weakness of the central Mexican state, which dates back to its very founding. The lawless space it left allowed the spread of banditry and normalised the practice of graft among public officials. Such customs then evolved in modern Mexico’s informal economy, a sphere of unregulated, untaxed, uncontrolled and downright illegal business practices.

Once this sort of systemic corruption passes a certain threshold, it becomes almost impossible to eradicate – and yet, some aspects of the Mexican experience have a glimmer of hope about them.

For all that corruption seems to be tightly woven into Mexico’s national fabric, Mexicans themselves are still fighting it, and hard. That much was made clear by thousands of protestors. And in July 2016, under mounting pressure from the international community, the Mexican government at last enacted new anti-corruption measures. Even in a country whose national political system is widely considered deeply corrupt, anti-corruption reforms are not out of the question.

Still, it pays to be realistic. Systemic corruption cannot be beaten merely through the enactment of some legislative instruments. What is needed is a dramatic change in political culture, as well constant political and social efforts – all of which in turn require vast reserves of time, resilience, and resolve.

http://theconversation.com/mexicos-corruption-problems-are-still-among-the-worlds-deepest-76627