Each Latin American country adopted different racial classification systems depending on the sociopolitical climate of the nation. Puerto Rico classifies anyone with white ancestry as "white" even though most folks on PR are mulatto to high-yellow (only about 1/3 can really pass as "white" per my last visit to the island). Likewise Costa Rica reclassified mestizos as "white" in order to attract more European settlers in the late 19th/early 20th century.
After the Mexican revolution "indigenismo" became the rage among the intellectual and governing elite. A noted sociologist named Jose Vasconcelos even created a ruling racial ideology based on "La Raza Cosmica" whereby the Mexicans were glorified as having the best of the Amerindian and the European in their bloodlines.
Quite so. But the various tensions in Mexico threaten to bust open in *some* direction, who knows what. Vincente Fox’s PPP has probably created the greatest internal migration Mexico has seen since the Yaqui deportation.
I was surprised that the last presidential election didn’t bust open in the city, after the leftist loser decided to call for a soft revolution. More than anything else, this is the good news that the Mexican people are themselves worried, and don’t want to lose a good thing. But out of the city, there are too many unknowns.
Another one I’m concerned about is the Santa Muerte cult, which just needs a charismatic leader to become a major pain. Then there is that little pig down in Venezuela who would love nothing more than to see Mexico go up in a sheet of flame.
And no matter what, the drug families willing to fund it.