With a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a spot on one of those ubiquitous lists of "leading global thinkers," Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray is just the kind of technocrat to bring the country the radical economic reform it needs. He's also financially entangled with a businessman who does hundreds of millions of dollars in business with the government.
Sadly, he isn't an anomaly. Mexico's ruling caste is seriously and systematically compromised by shady dealings. It's part of a wider failure of governance -- exemplifying the kind of corruption that's inciting more and more Mexicans to protest indifferent public institutions, police who kill rather than protect, and clubby technocrats who pursue economic reforms but put themselves above the rules.
