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Welcoming Marianistasia Grady of the America's Column and Editor at the Wall Street Journal

editorial board. Back from Mexico City to report

things are better than they were in the 1980s much better. I read from Mary's

reporting that deregulation is

that air travel and cell phones and dining out are commonplace.

Everything is moving in the right direction except Mary a very good evening to

Dela Cayet is the name of the economist whom you flag in your new column about what

can happen to make things even better. I want to check first on the streets of

Mexico City because you mention in this column that if you get a ticket

something has to happen for you to adjust that ticket. What is it that happens in the streets

of Mexico that holds back the country? Good evening to you. Well good evening

John I think Mexico for many years for many decades has been considered a very corrupt country and

one of the way that corruption happens is inside the government you know know, where they spend money, they pad contracts, all kinds of

shenanigans in government spending. But another way that the corruption happens is by basically extorting Mexican citizens in order to facilitate

transactions they have to do with the government. So many years ago I had an experience with a police

officer. He was after the driver of the taxi. I was in he wasn't after me but

basically what appeared to me to be an extortion to help this guy avoid a ticket.

I have experience with Mexicans I know who when they need permits to do things in Mexico City, they run into stone walls.

They're continually told to come back with more paperwork, and they know very well that

all they have to do is pass a little something

under the window and that bureaucrat will expedite their permit

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