"Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited," an investigation by The New York Times found.

  • fuzzyfuzzyfungus

    Umm… http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa/ and slammer time?

    Oh, wait, different sort of person, sorry about that.

  • blissfulight

    It’s okay, we don’t indict large corporations on criminal charges anymore.  They’re too big to fail, they didn’t mean it, and they’ll change, they promise.  

    • http://insight.pinkonbrown.org/ Dr P Fenderson

      Walmart and HSBC, sitting in a tree (in Mexico), S-C-R-E-W-I-N-G (everyone else).

  • UnderachievingSheep

    Perhaps everyone knows this one already but there is a great paper online written by two researchers of University of Bremen (Germany) about why and how Walmart failed in Germany. It’s a fascinating read because it provides two tired information: the tone deaf nature of Walmart and the refusal of the German people to be pushed into a consumer experience that was alien to their culture. Worth the time (it’s long) because of how it sheds light into Walmart’s international tactics, including breaking the local laws.

    http://www.iwim.uni-bremen.de/publikationen/pdf/w024.pdf

    (link to PDF)

  • Cowicide

    What say you, libertarian, corporatist apologists?  Big gub’mint must be to blame for this somehow, right?

    • Shashwath T.R.

      Well, if those laws hadn’t been there in the first place, Walmart wouldn’t have had to bribe officials to look the other way when they broke them.

      See? Bad government! Bad bad government!

  • ep3232

    As a mexican i can assure you nothing happens in México without corruption

  • sockdoll

    It’s not like Walmart invented la mordida. Maybe they just took to it more readily than most.