If any country has an image problem , it's Mexico.
American gringos portray Mexico as slimy, dirty, backwards and disgusting.
But they also go there by the oil-tankerload. None of us had been in another country for a long time, and Tijuana is only two hours away from Los Angeles by car. Remain Nameless needed some cheap Prozac. So, off we went. After pushing through a subway-like turnstile, we were out of the reach of Big Brother and in the helpful hands of Hermano Pequeno.