[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.

[PGR88]

but because personal and governmental machismo is big down there.

I know what you mean - but what's more important in the minds of Mexico's top polticians/elites - a few insignificant peasants and peons getting robbed and assaulted? Or trying to embarrass Trump and promote Mexican/Latino power against the United States?