2015考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：墨西哥犯罪率

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　　Mexico's growing crisis

　　墨西哥日益增长的犯罪率

　　Reforms and democracy, but no rule of law

　　改革和民主，但是没有法治

　　To save a promising presidency, Enrique Peaa Nieto must tackle crime and corruption

　　拯救一个有希望的总统，恩里克·培尼亚·涅托必须解决犯罪和腐败

　　DURING two years in office Mexico's president, Enrique Peaa Nieto, has received sharplycontrasting reviews at home and abroad. Foreigners, including The Economist, have praised hisstructural reforms of the economy, which include an historic measure to open up energy toprivate investment. Yet polls show that most Mexicans dislike Mr Peaa. Among other things,they blame his government for a squeeze on living standards and the interlinked problems ofviolent crime and corruption. Sadly, recent events have lent support to Mr Peaa's domesticcritics.

　　在墨西哥总统恩里克·培尼亚·涅托执政的两年间，国内外评论出现收到了大幅度的对比。国外评论，包括经济学人在内，赞扬他的经济结构改革,其中便包括一个历史性措施—开放私人投资能源。然而，民意调查显示,大多数墨西哥人不喜欢佩尼亚。除了其他事情之外,他们指责政府压榨其生活水平并且与暴力犯罪和腐败问题联系在一起。可悲的是，最近发生的事件无疑不是赞同其国内对于佩尼亚的指责。

　　On November 8th Mexico's attorney-general announced what almost everyone had alreadyconcluded: that 43 students from a teacher-training college in the southern state of Guerrero,who disappeared in the town of Iguala in late September, had been murdered by drug-traffickers after being kidnapped by the local police on the orders of the town's mayor. Guerrerohas been Mexico's most violent state for centuries. The federal government bears no directresponsibility for these events. But Mexicans see in them a symbol of the failure of Mr Peaa'sadministration to make security a priority.

　　11月8日，墨西哥总检察长宣布了一个早已被众人所知的结论：43个来自南部的格雷罗州的师范学院学生，在9月下旬消失在伊瓜拉市(Iguala)，已经确定是在当地市长的指令下被当地警察绑架后被交给毒贩，并已遭到谋杀。几个世纪以来，格雷罗州一直是墨西哥最暴力的地区。联邦政府对这些事件并没有直接责任。但墨西哥人把这件事视为培尼亚执政中“优先考虑安全”的失败的象征。

　　Now comes a problem that is uncomfortably close to home. The government had already optedto cancel a contract for a high-speed train that it had hastily awarded to the sole bidder, aconsortium of Chinese and Mexican companies including a construction firm from thepresident's home state. A local journalist has revealed that the boss of the same firm owns amansion that is the Peaa family's private residence. The president denies any wrongdoing,but a common thread runs through these events.

　　现在最大的问题是人们在家附近也不能有安全感。政府已经决定取消与匆忙中决定的唯一投标人的高速列车合同，,中国和墨西哥公司组成的一个联合财团，包括一家来自总统的家乡的建筑公司。当地记者透露，该公司的老板拥有价值$7m的属于佩纳家族的私人住宅的豪宅。总统否认有任何不当行为,但这些事件贯穿了一条共同的主线。

　　Mexico only became a democracy in 2000, when seven decades of rule by the InstitutionalRevolutionary Party (PRI), the political machine that raised Mr Peaa, were ended by electoraldefeat. Unfortunately, democracy did not bring the rule of law to Mexico. Too many in the PRIstill see the job of the police and the courts as enforcing political control, rather thaninvestigating mobsters. Corrupt politicians are protected rather than punished. Organised crimeand graft both remain a part of everyday life, and neither has been helped by the drugsflowing north to the United States.

　　墨西哥仅在2000年实行过民主政策，七年的统治的革命制度党(PRI)，提高了亨利的政治机构，减少了其选举失败的可能性。不幸的是，民主不会给墨西哥带来法治。大部分的革命制度党人仍然看到警察和法院在执行工作以便达到政治控制的效果，而不是在调查暴徒。腐败的政客们受到的是保护,而不是惩罚。有组织犯罪和腐败都仍然是日常生活的一部分，同时也促使了药物从北流向美国。

　　Some things have changed. The Supreme Court now operates professionally. A 41,000-strongfederal police force is more capable than most of its local counterparts. Felipe Calderón, MrPeaa's predecessor, weakened the drugs gangs, but at the price of a surging murder rate andunchecked abuses by the security forces. On paper, Mr Peaa has a grand crime-preventionstrategy. However his real efforts have been focused on the economy. The murder rate mayhave fallen back slightly, but extortion and kidnappings have not. Tycoons practise espionageand bribe judges. For many Mexicans, Iguala was a reminder of the gap between justice for thepoor and for the rich.

　　有些事改变了。最高法院现在开始进行专业的操作。而41000个强壮的联邦警察部队比大多数当地同行更有能力。前任总统卡尔﹒德龙削弱了毒品团伙，但不断飙升的谋杀率和无节制的滥用安全部队等现象依旧存在。名义上，培尼亚有一个宏伟的犯罪预防策略。然而，他真正努力的方向始终集中在经济上。谋杀率可能略有回落,但敲诈勒索和绑架率仍居高不下。大亨们从事间谍工作并且贿赂法官。对于大部分墨西哥人而言，伊瓜拉就是一个提醒穷人与富人间司法差距的典型。

　　How to end impunity

　　如何结束有罪不罚

　　Mr Peaa's people rightly say that the rule of law cannot be imposed in Mexico overnight. Butthat is no excuse for inaction today. Iguala is not the only town where criminals run the police:in such places, the federal government should take temporary control of the police andadministration. Mr Peaa should lead an effort to clean up state police forces and local courts. Abill to make the attorney-general's office independent and to create an anti-corruptionagency should be fast-tracked. Federalism in Mexico needs change, too: states andmunicipalities raise almost no funds of their own and are not held to account for their spending.It is an indictment of all three main political parties that the elements in Mr Peaa's reform pactto make politicians accountable have yet to be approved.

　　培尼亚派人公正的说,不能强求墨西哥的法治一夜之间有所改变。但是，这并不是不采取行动的理由。伊瓜拉并不是唯一一个警察与罪犯勾结的城市，在这些地方,联邦政府应采取使用临时的警察并且加强政府的控制。培尼亚应该努力清理国家警察部队和地方法院。一项法案使总检察长办公室独立且创建一个反腐机构，这些应该会很快就能见效。同时，墨西哥的联邦制也应该改变。州和市政当局筹集的几乎没有其自己的资金，且政府应该不承担为他们支出的责任。在培尼亚的改革条例中有一个对于三个主要政党的公诉，而主要负责的政客们还尚未同意。

　　However impressive Mr Peaa's economic reforms, Mexico will never manage to achieve itsconsiderable potential without an honest, efficient criminal-justice system. Its democracywill lose legitimacy if its politicians continue to tolerate graft. Mr Peaa's domestic critics saythat he is a skin-deep moderniser, steeped in his party's bad old ways. Now is the time for himto prove them wrong.

　　然而培尼亚令人印象深刻的经济改革，墨西哥永远设法实现其巨大的潜在的不诚实,高效的刑事司法系统。如果政客们继续容忍贪污其民主将失去合法。培尼亚的国内批评人士说，培尼亚是一个肤浅的现代主义者，沉浸在他的政党的怀旧方式。现在是时候让他证明他们是错误的了。翻译：杨霭琳

文章来源：经济学人

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