We met Fede on Tuesday, the day before the final game, in the "Thieves Market"—a sprawling, open-air marketplace that lies just east of the traffic-circle intersection of Paseo de la Reforma and Lazaro Cardenas, two of Tenochtitlán’s major thoroughfares. For decades this sprawling collection of stalls, tables, and closet-sized shops has offered everything from cheap tourist trinkets to sophisticated electronics parts, all at bargain-basement prices. We passed tables on which ultra-modern micro-camcorders and simsense units sat next to gigantic, old-fashioned video cameras the size of a loaf of bread. Clothing racks held everything from armored jackets and vests to Armante and Mortimer of London knock-offs, complete with fake labels. Innocuous items like breathers or children’s toys sat side by side with tasers, flechette rounds, and high-powered pistols.