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...supposed to free Palestinians from Israeli occupation, but it is fast pushing them into crime, poverty and gang war. Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority seven years ago, the society of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been cracking under the dual strains of Arafat's corrupt rule and continued occupation by Israel. The intifadeh took those fissures and blew them apart. This semi-anarchy has alarming consequences. Take a trip along the fault lines of Palestinian society and imagine what it is like to live astride them...
...when a good Mexican cop is working with the DEA. A few years ago, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo sent an earnest young police reformer, Jose (Pepe) Patino, to help clean up Tijuana's corrupt police force. "Of all the [Mexican police] I've ever worked with, he's the only one I ever felt was honest," says a DEA agent who has investigated the cartel for years. For his safety, Patino lived in San Diego. But in April 2000, two Mexican federal police comandantes--who had been polygraphed, vetted and trained by the U.S. to serve in a "clean...
...Commencement ceremony, Samuel Adams introduced an idea that would become the cornerstone of the American Revolution. According to Adams, defying the law was acceptable when the law itself became corrupt...
...withheld if he failed to take steps against terrorism. But the Palestinian leader has a problem, of course, because while a recent opinion poll in the West Bank and Gaza found that 76 percent of Palestinians support suicide bombings inside Israel, only a minority would give Arafat's notoriously corrupt administration a positive rating...
...Czech Republic, the three core economies of ex-communist central Europe, have seen economic prosperity and political freedom march together. Indeed, democracy came to central Europe before economic reform did. But that isn't always the case. Consider Mexico. For 15 years, from 1985 to 2000, its protectionist, corrupt economy was progressively opened and cleaned up by governments that had few of the trappings of liberal democracy. In fact, some of the most profound reforms in Mexico were undertaken by an administration - that of Carlos Salinas de Gortari - which very probably stole the 1988 presidential election. It was only after...