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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.

World Obesity Atlas, an organization that apparently follows obesity around the world, predicts global obesity will increase to half the global population in 12 years. 

A year or so back I wrote about some of the things Mexican’s find weird about Americans. So it’s time to flip the coin to see what many gringo’s find weird in Mexico.

Is it me? Or has the world reached the point of chaos foreseen in the Bible, such that judgement day, the Millennium and the New World Order is upon us.