Last week, the U.S. government had received over 350 new reports of what they called “unidentified aerial phenomenon,” UAPs or UFOs or OMGs, since March 2021—roughly half of which are so far unexplained, according to the director of National Intelligence.

At first blush, retirement set you free to do whatever entertains you. You are free of work responsibilities. And you deploy to a marvelous place like Mexico to relax and spin out your promise of ultimate freedom.

Are you getting your minimum daily requirement of water-fly eggs?

The recent comments by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) about the U.S. fentanyl crisis—“There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces”—may be the most awkward rationalizing since Cortez explained to Montezuma that he was a savage.

Is murder now a commonplace news item we don’t even pay much attention to or show much outrage over anymore?

Everything in Mexican mores and customs is about respect. It’s time for we foreigners to check ourselves to see how we met some of the tenets of expected good manners.