Mexwanderer in accident
Apparently Mex was involved in an accident in San Diego,ca. This was posted in the tech issue forum. He is probably frail so this might be serious. Moisheh
Forum Discussion
"Arrest The Usual Suspects"
Talk about catching someone with their shorts around their ankles, the crime problem here just overwhelmed and devastated the law enforcement, judicial, and prison system here. IMHO one book about México explains why this country evolved as it did. FIRE AND BLOOD by T. R. Fehrenbach, details the history of this country like no other book - not even Alan Riding's DISTANT NEIGHBORS.
This is an honest work that explains in explicit fashion why Mexico is a bureaucratic maze - especially the judicial system. The psychology of two vastly different societies - one a confusingly different array of indigenous peoples, the other, a thoroughly screwed-up goose-stepping legion of Spaniards. Like the movie LA LEY de HERODES, Fire and Blood lays things on the line as they are, not as people would like them to be.
I read this book after spending 50+ years down here, and occasionally pounded my arm chair arm rest expressing agreement with the author's observations and conclusions.
Sample: "The very highest pinnacle of success was not deemed to become an engineer or scientist, but a bureaucrat - creating a never ending thickening layer of redundant laws and regulations".
My fear, is that Mexican society will finally find a breaking point and elect to have a strongman like the Philippine's, Duterte steer the country away from seeming anarchy.
To me, Fire and Blood is like a Rosetta Stone. To absorb the information in this book is to allow an RV'er to understand this country better and help to dissolve cultural barriers that cloud and confuse. To safely immerse oneself into the truly splendid aspects of Mexican culture is the stuff of dreams.
Talk about catching someone with their shorts around their ankles, the crime problem here just overwhelmed and devastated the law enforcement, judicial, and prison system here. IMHO one book about México explains why this country evolved as it did. FIRE AND BLOOD by T. R. Fehrenbach, details the history of this country like no other book - not even Alan Riding's DISTANT NEIGHBORS.
This is an honest work that explains in explicit fashion why Mexico is a bureaucratic maze - especially the judicial system. The psychology of two vastly different societies - one a confusingly different array of indigenous peoples, the other, a thoroughly screwed-up goose-stepping legion of Spaniards. Like the movie LA LEY de HERODES, Fire and Blood lays things on the line as they are, not as people would like them to be.
I read this book after spending 50+ years down here, and occasionally pounded my arm chair arm rest expressing agreement with the author's observations and conclusions.
Sample: "The very highest pinnacle of success was not deemed to become an engineer or scientist, but a bureaucrat - creating a never ending thickening layer of redundant laws and regulations".
My fear, is that Mexican society will finally find a breaking point and elect to have a strongman like the Philippine's, Duterte steer the country away from seeming anarchy.
To me, Fire and Blood is like a Rosetta Stone. To absorb the information in this book is to allow an RV'er to understand this country better and help to dissolve cultural barriers that cloud and confuse. To safely immerse oneself into the truly splendid aspects of Mexican culture is the stuff of dreams.
