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Mexico and the Failed State Revisited | STRATFOR

"...The amount of money pouring into Mexico annually is stunning. It is estimated to be about $35 billion to $40 billion each year. The massive profit margins involved make these sums even more significant...

...As with illegal money everywhere, the goal is to wash it and invest it in legitimate enterprises where it can produce more money. That means it has to enter the economy through legitimate institutions — banks and other financial entities — and then be redeployed into the economy...

...From Mexico’s point of view, interrupting the flow of drugs to the United States is not clearly in the national interest or in that of the economic elite..."


And there lies the problem.

We all wail and moan about it, but who would say "Yes; I would trade a significantly lower value of my investment portfolio for an end to drug-related crime?"

A river of dirty money courses through all of our lives.

We only oppose it in principle; as long as we don't have to pay the true cost of opposing it.

Let's launder some dope money, Wachovia!

Now let's not make this personal...

For what it's worth, that article by Catherine Fitts was first published in 2001. Would anyone deny that there have been some minor developments since then?