[elfman2]

"1,000 pesos which was worth about $80 now will not buy a coke"

About what year was that? Didn’t pesos get replaced with “new pesos” about 15 years ago. Are those now devalued as well.

There was a kind of frontier rawness to Mexico that I liked when traveling by motorcycle, but also a sense of fascism and danger that detracts.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

The biggest shock I had was in the early 70s I hired a car and driver to go from Martinez De la Torre (sp) to Villa Hermosa, Tabasco.
It cost me 1,000 pesos.
I went across the border in the early 90s and a coke was 1,050 pesos.