These Mexican Business Leaders Asked for Higher Taxes to Fight Crime. Did It Work?
These Mexican Business Leaders Asked for Higher Taxes to Fight Crime. Did It Work?
By
Benjamin Russell
A small but meaningful initiative in Mexico shows how the private sector can help address crime.
This article is adapted from AQ’s print issue on reducing homicide in Latin America.
At first, Luis Lara Armendáriz thought the explosion of violence in his home state of Chihuahua, Mexico, was like any other problem he might face in business.
“If you’re missing an access road, that’s what you have to build … If you’re missing a hotel or a hospital, you invest in a hotel or a hospital,” Lara, 73, one of the state’s most prominent business leaders, told AQ. “Well, we...
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