When the US Defence Department produced a report in December in which it named Mexico as one as one of two countries (along with Pakistan) at risk of rapidly becoming a failed state there was a predictable rejection of its findings in many quarters. In fact, the authors may have got their analysis right, just for the wrong country.
当美国国防部在12月提交一份报告，指责墨西哥是存在迅速沦为失败国家风险的两个国家之一（另外一个是巴基斯坦）时，不难预料这样的结论将在许多地区受到谴责。实际上，这份报告的作者可能分析正确，但只是搞错了国家。更靠近中美洲南部的国家——特别是危地马拉——可能更适合被称为失败国家。