We were seated along one wall, near the plants. The other tables were filled with businessmen and shoppers, all of them Latinos. My friend had a beer and I settled on a margarita which turned out to be excellent, and warranted a refill. After our refreshments were finished, I bought a ticket to the torture exhibit. The display area was crowded with visitors, and the gallery also had a cameraman for a local Mexican television station and a beautiful anchor woman who was carrying a microphone and was interviewing people in front of chairs with nails in the seat, back and arm rests, and other devices that were painful to look at.
Torture is a subject that is both fascinating and repulsive at the same time.
Many of the signs were in English, or at leas t of variation of English that often lacked grammar and syntax, but was understandable. It seemed that torture was in wide use throughout Europe and the rest of the world right through the 20th century between the two world wars. I suspect that it is also still used today in some many countries. During the inquisition and later, is a person was tortured and still didn t confess to their crimes, the courts were obligated to find them innocent. Of course, that verdict didn t really help the accused, who usually died of infection and gangrene.