re: bathroom practices: muslims among the crowd may be using their hand to wipe, and then use wet papertowels to wipe the feces off their hands, discarding towels in the trash before final handwashing.
Brought a boat into one of the Houston shipyards back in the late ninety’s and ran into this at the dock facilities. However, spent a year in and out of Bay of Campeche cities in ‘92, and was a totally different experience. My outlook is north and south Mexico are totally different.
Survived an 80 mph taxi ride to Villahermosa International thru small towns using horn vice brakes; but, had to help coax one ghost pale guy free of the seat. I wonder if the lounge area still has remnants of bullet holes in the wall?
Sendero Luminoso would come across the Guatemalan border on raids prior to my stint there, according to the locals. Two decades later and things are worse all over. Lots of fake Mexicans south of the border passing thru.
Read on:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1988/HJV.htm