Patrick, I was referring to the USA as the less developed country, (in terms of foreign policy) NOT MEXICO! Please see my thread in Make a Difference forum.

I lived in San Miguel de Allende, GTO for three years. I have been a United States Peace Corps volunteer (Costa Rica), worked with the International Red Cross, in Mexico, and exported restaurant furniture (thousands of hand made tables and chairs), fountains, pottery, and construction materials out of Mexico and into the US.

Mexico has more millionaires per capita than the USA, and you are absolutely right ... the challenge of survival is great because of greed on the part of a few....government corruption, bad agency administrators, drought, flooding poor infra structure with the Church as the real safety net for starvation. The Mexican people are generally industrious and I doubt many North Americans could face the challenges of daily life of a poor Mexican and survive as well as they do.... It is difficult not to lose hope.

Lack of water is an increasing problem in northern Mexico. I am happy to report here that we drove through Mexico Brownsville, Tx to Guatemala and returned Guatemala up the west coast to Nogales about two years ago and I have noted a dramatic change in the behavior of the Mexican police. In every instance they treated us with respect and traveling the length of the country twice within 6 months, we had no problems whatsoever.

I do understand that the northern border towns are increasingly out of control due to scuffles between rival drug gangs and police.... take care and please see my post under MAKE A DIFFERENCE xfiltrate

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