Every time we visit, things seem better than the last time, but too much stays the same. There are too many people for the land, and not enough good land and not enough water. The government tries to preach birth control, but the church tells people they will go hell if they do. From the way the population is growing, it seems people have much more faith in the church than in the government. The trash and the pollution are also overwhelming.
Raw sewage dumps into the streams and then into the rivers and then into the lakes.
I remember as a kid in the U.S. that people threw their trash everywhere and now they don't, so hopefully they'll stop in Mexico too. In spite of the above, it's still a great place. It's hard to believe that you're in the third world when you're here. This is where we've spent most of the time, as it's where Geoff's parents live. Still mostly the same-a beautiful old colonial city in the state of Guanajuato, on a mountainside in the desert at an altitude of 7000 feet.