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Rotten to the Core.
Arne aus den Ruthen did something most Mexicans can only fantasize about: he struck back. For decades, people have complained of being bled to death by crooked cops, clerks and other civil servants. But aus den Ruthen swore to stop corruption, and he knew just where he wanted to start. After he was elected president of the Mexico City borough where he grew up, one of his first moves was to secretly install nine video cameras in the ceiling of the local motor-vehicles office. He was determined to clean house, even if it meant spying on public employees he had never met.
He ended up with some 400 hours of videotape--evidence, he says, of a scam whose audacity ...
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