Would you like to live in Mexico?

Maybe I have been too harsh on my country.

Yes, Mexico is full of corruption from the top--our President--to the bottom--the lowest grade police officer standing at the corner. Drug kingpins have taken the country under control, and there is a war with thousands of dead--some say 16,000 or more in the last 3 years.

Nevertheless, I still live in Mexico and will live in Mexico for the rest of my life--maybe. Why? Is it because I am a masochist?

Mexico is still a great, beautiful country, full of nice people. Our neighborhood is peaceful, the weather is usualy mild, there are lots of jobs--not very well paid, though--and most of our family and friends live here. Most of all, this is our country, where we were born, where we speak our language, and therefore we know how to talk to our people, and how to socialize. I am not sure that I would be able to find a job or make friends in another country because I don't know the cultural ways.

Drug kingpins are the new lords of Mexico. Fortunately enough, we only see them in the news.