ESR | May 10, 2021 | When "a little corruption" in Mexico goes too far
“It is widely known,” Mexican journalist Ricardo Ravelo wrote in June 2018, “how the General Administration of Customs … operates a network of officials linked to large-scale smuggling in the country’s 49 customs offices.” Under previous central administrators Aristotle Núñez Sánchez and Osvaldo Santin Quiroz, Mexico’s Tax Administration Service (SAT) became known for “…unleashing smuggling throughout the country.” Smuggling, said Ravelo, is a business that operates in Mexico without a containment dam, under the protection of senior officials a...