Can you do business in Mexico without bribes?
I thought it was considered politically correct for Americans corporations to honor local traditions.
See ya in the slammer, guys...
$341 grand? Oh my that's cheap. Considering all the freezerfuls of cold cash that would be needed to get the same thing done in the USA.
La mordida, the bite is so pervasive that not paying would be the exception not the rule.
I am sure some of our last remaining supporters of Free Trade Globalism will have some positive spin on this...
I never understood all the cheer-leading for Wal Mart...it never was much of a pro-American company (especially after Sam Walton died)...and based most of its success on just being cheap...and not being really creative or ingenuitive. And it cost us millions of American jobs in the process.
Yes, they have cheap products...but we pay for it in other areas.
I can remember older people a few years ago telling me that “Woolworth’s would never go out of business”. Wal Mart is headed that same direction...especially with Target getting more aggressive outside the US
Oh please.
La Mordita is how everything is done in Mexico. Bribery is expected and accomodated, with government officials being the worst miscreants.
It’s where we’re headed. Official corruption in even the smallest of day to day interactions. Police, tax assessors, public utilities, you name it. If you want it or want out of it, you’ll have to grease a palm or two.
Carlos Slim from Mexico, the richest man in the world, partially owns the NY Times. Did the Times article mention this? Is Wal Mart a competitor to monopolist Slim? What’s the rest of the story?