What you think you're seeing is just not what is. Go ahead and count. Include the ones that are managing to hold onto some shreds of socialism and feed their people by bringing back capitalism. Those that call themselves socialist but have actually been dictatorships for decades (under either RW or LW leaders, often hard to tell a difference) have to be counted also -- it's a ommon and natural progression.
Btw, organized crime and corrupt socialist governements can do the same things you're attributing to corporations. And do, but far, far worse than any corporations have managed in a functioning democracy.
REGULATED capitalism is the possibility anticapitalists always leave out. For good reason! We used to have it, did spectacularly well that way, and can again. Dismantling it is OUR fault, not "the corporations." WE created regulation and then voted to eliminate it.
Unlike socialism, capitalism allows people sufficient freedom to "pursuit of happiness" without breaking the system, but it does require setting limits to protect others.
I love Mexico and hate that it's "partially free," but this is not a good era for democracy to be able to overcome massive crime, corruption and political extremism to fully establish itself.
Mexico has been an electoral democracy since 2000, and alternation in power between parties is routine at both the federal and state levels. However, the country suffers from severe rule of law deficits that limit full citizen enjoyment of political rights and civil liberties. Violence perpetrated by organized criminals, corruption among government officials, human rights abuses by both state and nonstate actors, and rampant impunity are among the most visible of Mexico’s many governance challenges.
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