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President-Elect Joe Biden wants to step up anti-corruption efforts in Mexico.

It’s not clear that Mexican officials will accept the help, however.

Feelings between the two countries were at a nadir after Mexico pressured the US to drop trafficking charges against general and former Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos after his arrest in Los Angeles, wrote the Louisville Courier Journal. American prosecutors claimed Cienfuegos was known in the underworld as “El Padrino,” or The Godfather, of the Latin American country’s drug cartels.

American authorities are still holding ex-Mexican security chief García Luna for allegedly accepting bribes from drug cartels. Corruption in Mexico runs deep. Criminal groups work hand in hand with government security officials to secure spyware for hacking mobile phones and other surveillance, for example.

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