When current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly known as AMLO) won the election in December 2018, his landslide victory rested squarely on his promise to root out systemic corruption in the country. But two years later, progress in long-term institutional anti-corruption reforms remains stagnant.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...