Why are Mexican mayors getting killed by traffickers? The dynamics ...
Why are Mexican mayors getting killed by traffickers? The dynamics ...
Why are Mexican mayors getting killed by traffickers? The dynamics ...
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Corruption is a complex game where signals, beliefs and expectations play a large role in<br />
determining outcomes. Bribe and <strong>getting</strong> bribed <strong>are</strong> actions subject to many subtleties. One<br />
side has to avoid to get <strong>killed</strong>; the other has to keep a fragile equilibrium between killing, and<br />
not-killing; both sides cannot get too powerful neither too weak. Power sometimes hurts, and<br />
weakness sometimes benefits. <strong>The</strong> game of corruption is without any doubt a difficult one to<br />
play. In the words of Mr. (XX -closed source), local politician: “I do not know [what one has<br />
to do to remain alive], one just has to be very, very clever.”<br />
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