A fellow gringo pioneer in Mexico City just e-mailed this to me, rather gleefully (as if we're getting through to the media at last):
FOX NEWS just ran a segment on what's wrong with Mexico. Of course the local Mexican
people interviewed blamed the government and corruption (even as the two rather monopolistic Mexican television networks won't air such commentary in depth). They said that with all of
Mexico's resources, the government must be inept. Then the
reporter spoke about the ridiculously high phone, petroleum and electricity prices, and how hard it still is to fire useless employees in Mexico (because labor unions can still block traffic with their protests and with impunity). The
reporter also stated that the powers that control Mexico always used the U.S.A. as
an economic outlet (if not a scapegoat), going so far as to print maps on how to cross the
desert. Then there was an excerpt of how right-wing Mexican presidential candidate Felipe Calderon said that Mexico needs to create more jobs. The reporter
concluded his report by asking sarcastically "maybe the Mexicans should not be
demonstrating in the USA but instead in Mexico?"
Now that's what I call fair and balanced! :-)
Interestingly enough, even Hillary kind of "gets it" where Mexico's nearly omnipotent oligarchs are concerned:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/411104p-347791c.html
"[Mrs. Clinton] said she favors a "carrot-and-stick" approach with Mexico to provide that government and its "oligarchs" the incentives to give Mexicans more and better jobs in their own country."