When the US catches a cold Mexico gets pneumonia, as the saying goes, although according to Carstens, the head of the Bank of Mexico, it was only a touch of catarrh (un catarito). Mexico is one of the most dogmatically neoliberal countries in the world with free trade agreements all over the place, but its mediocre economic performance is a good example of what happens when the same medicine is always applied whatever the ailment. Never mind the endemic corruption, tax evasion as the norm and the use of Pemex as an enormous cash cow to pay out maybe the highest salaries in the world to its not very deserving political class. 2. Actually it is more likely 60,000+ dead, but no one knows exactly as the figures kept by the Mexican government are unreliable and probably massaged down. We need "Body Count" to keep a more accurate record, as they did in Iraq. The real horror show are the 60,000 missing Central and South American immigrants kidnapped by the Zetas with the connivance of the Immigration authorities. How many of them are alive or more likely buried in as yet undiscovered mass graves scattered around the country. It is unlikely their families will be able to pay for their release if they had to risk crossing Mexico to enter the US as undocumented migrants in the first place. The massacre of 75 South and Central American migrants by the Zetas in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, very near the US border,