In Mexico and Brazil, Anti-Corruption Efforts Seem to Have Faded
Policies to fight graft are a low priority in both countries and have lost momentum in the region as a whole.
MEXICO CITY — Despite a wave of headline-making corruption cases, the hard truth is that most Latin American governments have relegated anti-graft measures to a lower priority in recent years, while voters have been less active and mobilized around the issue. With a few exceptions—as in Guatemala last August—anti-corruption pledges no longer define Latin American elections. This is especially true in the region’s two most populous countries, Brazil and Mexico, which last decade showed glimpses of hope through high-profile corruption investigations such as Operation Car Wash. Yet,...
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