[FITZ]

My own personal interest has now turned to studying how the upper-class lives in Mexico City, Rio and Sao Paulo

Yes --- we'll see more and more of that as this country becomes more mexicanized. The wealthy have it very good, they have many servants who'll live on next to nothing ----but they're also very frightened, everyone lives behind very high walls with broken glass and barbed wire along the tops. We're starting to see a lot of that same thing here ----big beautiful houses in expensive neighborhoods with iron bars on every window and door that rival those on buildings in our worst slums.

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exactly right, that describes Mexico City perfectly. People are either in MB limos, or picking through garbage dumps for survival. Its what our political leaders hope to make out of America, through globalization to destroy the middle class.