[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Probably one has to go through the hoops and become a citizen of Mexico [to teach English in Mexico]. Many Americans can teach sort of like "wetbacks" or undocumented workers and are paid good money in cash. Working for the PUBLIC schools has a lot of labor union built in rules that would make it difficult for an American citizen to teach for pay in Mexico.

You miss my point. I'm not inquiring about employment of Americans, the question is about the subject matter: Is it legal for anyone to teach English as a subject in Mexican public schools?

In a country which reportedly publishes information for domestic consumption on how to evade US immigration restrictions, anyone would suppose that the schools would also teach English. But it seems that not that many Mexican immigrants do know English when they arrive - and it's a significant handicap to them.

Even for those who do not intend to emmigrate to the north, English is a valuable language not only for tourism but for international commerce generally. Do Mexican public schools teach the subject?

[Shuttle Shucker]

According to the (Leftist) Houston Chronicle, owned by the San Francisco Chronicle, ObraGore had about TWENTY THOUSAND supporters show up at the Zocalo Sunday: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4098227.html Were those the ones who went on to form the human chain or did others do that? Either way, it would seem that support is dying down... Now if only Mexico would legislate heavily enough against the formation of such traffic-blocking human walls, especially given how the USA is finally putting a wall on its Southern border to pressure Mexico to finally embrace its own pro-entrepreneurial reformers (like Felipe Calderon, who could make life less cushy for Mexican oligarchs like telecommunications monopolist Carlos Slim).