In Mexico, it also means a payment made by a politician to a journalist in exchange for favourable coverage. Chapulín signifies “grasshopper” – but can also mean a politician who changes party affiliation in search of financial benefit. So well-entrenched is corruption in Mexico’s political life, that an entire lexicon has evolved to describe its intricacies. Now a group of activists has published a compendium of corruption terms in an effort to highlight the country’s graft problem. Those behind the Corrupcionario Mexicano – or “Mexican Corruptionary” – argue that curbing corruption starts with changing the way criminal behaviour is described.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 11:30 UTC