[PGR88]

I’m very surprised the Federales didn’t take severe action.

I'm not. Socialists and one-party elites everywhere will sacrifice anyone and anything below them for their political campaigns.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I'm surprised, not because of the purity of their motives, but because personal and governmental machismo is big down there.

The cops got out of the way. More recently I read that the mob looted an open-air market--that's not going to be popular with Mexicans--it's insulting.