The paper to follow is strongly based on a report that appeared in The Economist, volume 367, number 8330, June 28th – July 4th 2003, the Special 160th Anniversary Issue, pages 59-60. The report is entitled Wakey wakey! and deals with crime in Mexico, as the situation appeared about 7-8 years ago. The Mexican government then wanted a total reform of the country’s creaking criminal-justice system, as the Mexican’s faith in this institution was reported to be so low, that ”about fourfifths of victims do not even bother to report the crime”!