aaaaaahhhhhh

in the middle of all the talk about scary mexico tumbling towards being the somalia of the americas, i think this is something interesting.



mexico city is about to become more progressive than most of the united states. mexico has issues, but it is not collapsing. an article we had to read in foreign affairs said, "esta histeria nubla el verdadero reto: la creciente violencia es efecto de la democratización de México —y la única solución verdadera es continuar fortaleciendo la democracia mexicana." she means that when mexico was supposed to have been safe, it was essentially a dictatorship, and that the violence is not about drugs but rapid democratization. it is a very interesting time to be here for sure. mexico has a good sense of humor about its 20th century, though. in spanish, a dictatorship is una dictadura, but in mexico they call the PRI's rule for 80 years the dictablanda because it was the most boring dictatorship in latin america