"Otherwise reforms would have to be made --- and the Mexican elites don't want those."
FITZ, I'm sad to say the American "Elites" don't want real reform either. I have to laugh every time I read about Social Security reform....the entire agency needs flushed, and now they're going to include illegals from Mexico. Yeah, that will help!! NOT.
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What I sometimes think it is --- they believe that the current government of Mexico --- while completely corrupt --- provides some stability so they are intent on keeping it propped up. We've been known to prop up corrupt regimes for that reason before.
But I think the very postponement of the long-needed reforms is going to make things all the worse when it does reach the breaking point. Too much suffering --- and the solution is not for them all to move here because most lack the skills and language ability to be self-reliant here --- and most really would prefer to stay home. They would stay home if that was at all possible. Some elites here might lose their dirt-cheap employees --- I guess they don't want that either.
Fixing Mexico isn't an easy matter --- not at this point. They've destroyed the rural people --- they've lost their farms and their entire way of life. They've been forced to move to the slums of the big cities or become cheap labor here in the USA. The rural and village life was where the good values were once held.