Expert pessimistic on Mexico’s future
He’s not the only one, of course.
An expert on Latin America said he is increasingly pessimistic about Mexico’s future and its ability to end rampant violence from warring drug cartels.
George W. Grayson, a professor of government at the College of William & Mary, told about 100 people attending a border security conference at UTEP on Monday that average Mexican citizens are “feeling increasingly impotent” about their ability to change their country.
The Mexican elite also “doesn’t care a rat’s a— about the average citizen,” Grayson said in an interview after his lecture.
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There are lots of articles in the sidebar at the link if you want to join him in his pessimism. This one may be the most ridiculous: Juárez mayor says residents feel secure. This is the mayor who is rumored to be living in El Paso. The fact that he owns a house there is not rumor.