Lox,

When I visited Oaxaca, back in the mid 70's, the police were armed with machine guns, and we were warned not to go outside town after dark.

Of course, since we came into Mexico on a visa issued in Washington, DC, we had no problems at all.


And that was when the peso was 12 cents, and a real silver coin.


The poverty of the people that I saw, compared to the wealth of the upper class, gave me a view of where we might be headed. IMO, the lack of a strong middle class, and oppurtunity for the poor to advance into it, have provided a situation that will eventually blow up.