In Mexico, Sorting Out Good Guys From Bad 墨西哥，坏人老板挑选好人雇员 Many of the mug shots of drug traffickers that appear in the Mexican press show surly looking roughnecks glaring menacingly at the camera. An anticorruption investigation unveiled last week in the Mexican capital, however, made it clear that not everybody enmeshed in the narcotics trade looks the part. 墨西哥的杂志刊载了许多经过整理的照片，这些照片是由一个反贪机构所公布 他们都是一副凶神恶煞的脸孔。不论如何，让它看来并非每个人都已卷入 毒品交易的市场。 There was a gray-haired, grandfatherly type who was pushing 70, as well as an avuncular figure with a neatly coiffed goatee and wire-rimmed spectacles perched upon his nose. Some of the five men who found themselves on the front pages of newspapers on their way to jail wore suits, which made them look more like bureaucrats than bad guys. 有个满头灰发，看起来已经当祖父的70岁男子，刚好有个整理过的山羊胡，以及镶边 的眼镜挂在他鼻子上。这些在上了报纸头版的五名男子在进监狱时穿着西装，看来与 其说是罪犯不如说是政府官员。 Among the greatest challenges in Mexico’s drug war is the fact that the traffickers fit no type. Their ranks include men and women, the young and the old. And they can work anywhere: in remote drug labs, as part of roving assassination squads, even within the upper reaches of the government. 在这场墨西哥毒品战争里最大的挑战中，发现了毒贩有各种类型。他们包含了男女老少。 他们在哪都能工作，在人迹罕至的药品实验室，四处流窜的暗杀小队，以及政府的高 级官员之间。 It has long been known that drug gangs have infiltrated local police forces. Now it is becoming ever more clear that the problem does not stop there. The alarming reality is that many public servants in Mexico are serving both the taxpayers and the traffickers. 毒品帮派渗透进当地的警察体系，早已是长期以来众人皆知的事情。现在看来问题严重 并非仅止於此。令人震惊的事实是，墨西哥许多公务员同时服务纳税人及毒贩。 The men in suits, it turns out, were both bureaucrats and bad guys, officials say, corrupt employees high up in an elite unit of the federal attorney general’s office who were feeding secret information to the feared Beltra'n Leyva cartel in exchange for suitcases full of cash. 这位着西装的人，他便同时是官僚及坏人，官员说，这些贪官层次高达到联邦总检察长 办公室，他们拿着机密情报与令人惧怕的Beltra'n Leyva集团换取大笔现金。 Their arrest, and the firing of 35 other suspect law enforcement officials, represents the most extensive corruption case that this country, which knows corruption all too well, has ever seen. And it raises a question that is on the lips of many Mexicans: how does one know who is dirty and who is clean? 他们逮捕并开除了35名有疑虑的执法人员，代表这国家最广泛的贪渎案件，大家都知道， 即使从未见过。而且它提出了每个墨西哥人都挂在嘴边的问题：怎麽知道谁好谁坏? “I’m convinced that to stop the crime, we first have to get it out of our own house,” President Felipe Caldero'n, who has made fighting trafficking a crucial part of his presidency, said in a speech on Tuesday, after the arrests were announced. 总统Felipe Caldero'n卡德龙说「我知道要制止犯罪，要先让大环境转变的适合居住」 他在星期四发表逮捕行动後发表演说，表明对抗毒贩是他任期内的重要政策。 That house is clearly dirty. There is ample evidence that Mexicans of all walks of life are willing to join the drug gangs in exchange for cash, including farmers who abandon traditional crops and turn to growing marijuana and accountants who hide the narco-traffickers’ profits. 大环境的确很脏。有充分证据显示墨西哥人都有加入毒品交易市场赚大钱的想法，农夫 放弃代代相传的农产品转而种值大麻，会计师则帮毒贩做假帐。 There was sporadic evidence in the past that such corruption extended into high-level government offices. An army general who commanded Mexico’s anti-drug unit was arrested and convicted in 1997 after the discovery that he was working for a drug lord on the side. In 2005, a spy working for a drug cartel was discovered working in the president’s office and accused of feeding traffickers information on the movements of Vicente Fox, then the president. 过去有零星的证据显示高层官员收贿。97年一名指挥墨西哥反毒行动的陆军将领被逮， 因他是替毒贩老大工作。2005年，发现一名替毒贩工作的间谍在Vicente Fox当政时期 於总统办公室中工作并输送情报。 But the abundance of law enforcement officials now believed to be on the take has made Mr. Caldero'n’s drug war all the more difficult to execute. Traffickers often know beforehand when raids are going to occur. Sometimes dealers plant their people on the teams that carry out the raids to act as saboteurs. 但大部份的执法人员相信卡德龙总统的反毒战争要赢得胜利将更加困难。毒贩通常能在 突袭发动前早一步得知消息。有时毒贩会在反毒团队中培植他们的人马以破坏行动。 The traffickers’ networks are not foolproof. Mr. Caldero'n’s government did manage to capture Alfredo Beltra'n Leyva, a cartel leader, in January even though the group was receiving inside information. What appears to have happened, officials say, is that the army carried out the raid without involving the attorney general’s office, inadvertently keeping the corrupt officials out of the loop. 毒贩间的网络并非万无一失。一月时，卡德龙政府曾在内部情报被其集团知悉的情况下 顺利逮捕其老大Alfredo Beltra'n Leyva。政府官员说，陆军主导整个突击过程， 不让检察总长办公室知道，无意间摒除了受贿官员。 The cartel’s leaders, who operate out of Sinaloa State and have been implicated in the killing of a top police commander in Mexico City, were described in local press accounts as being furious that their government moles had not informed them of the raid. 这个集团的首领，掌控了Sinaloa州并涉嫌在墨西哥城杀害警政署长，当地媒体描述 他对政府内他所掌握的人马没有通知他突击的消息感到非常愤怒。 Still, the reach of the drug networks is so extensive that even winning a court conviction against a kingpin is not always enough to claim victory. 但是毒品网络太过广大，就算在法院能成功判决有罪，也不到能宣称赢得胜利。 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/world/americas/ 02mexico.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin 纽时 http://0rz.tw/94548 烦请注意附上原稿来源 -- 身为台湾人，不可不知天下事 立足台湾，放眼世界 国际事务版 国家研究院 政治, 文学, 学术 PoliticMan 研究 Σ政党/政治人物研究院 IA 政治 ◎IA国际事务版 --

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