On my first trip, driving in Mexico with Mex-US sweetie, I got the mini-history of PRI - kept in mind as I saw first-hand the conditions and the miniscule rich + vast majority. "Institutional revolution" indeed - like most pol-babble it was the precise opposite: read reactionary for "conservative" (even Mexico at least skipped.. the absurdity of calling that 'compassionate' - but we'll swallow anything).

I do so hope that the mordita culture is dying out at a decent rate; it was is? too widespread an institution ever to kill in just a few years. Ergo: you never could get 'justice' - a fact I witnessed when involved in a minor traffic mishap (P. drove it into a bank to avoid a driver). While we were at some estaci\ufffdn.. an obv. dirt-poor farmer truck owner was paying his little sop, to get his truck out of hock. Poor bastard; we dared not 'interfere' even to slip him a hundred (not chickenfeed for us either - but lots for him). Then there was the sleeping guard in Barrio de Navidad - with a machine gun on lap..

Anyway, there seems never to have been an intent of the PRI to export (!) its system of subjugation: whereas with the Nazis, that was paramount.

Viva Nuevo Mexico, then..! (no not ours)


Ashton

{ugh} My miniscule sample pales into insignificance. When you think of what is *enough* poverty of body/spirit to cause a pair of parents - much less likely IMO than just One? - to (most probably) Plan such a hideous thing: to raise cash. words fail
Will remember this one. Sadly.

(We were advised Not to drive at night. We did so briefly, twice.) Once, a veritable trip to olden times, sublime. Second - almost offed by a completely dust-covered, unlighted, unreflector-ed dead truck smack in middle of the carretera! / no shoulders per usual.

Idiot had not even a can to light a gas-soaked rag in, or Any source of light! I didn't realize I remembered so many swear words - driver was bigger, but accepted them in the spirit of the fuck-up. TGFS (for Saab) I swerved at last 500 mSec at ~ 50ish; it went where I wanted. Thanks again Swedish engineers who love(d) us. I set out a couple flares and we split.. clammy.

Yeah.. us gringos don't realize shit about what it has been like for lots of people (even In the US.. let alone any place else on the maps which are no longer part of schooling via Pee Cees).



Hey.. kinda amazing we both survived thus far, eh?


Ashton