The Culture That Is Mexico
13th June 2013
Steve Sailer clues you in.
My dad and I drove around Mexico City in 1975. One day we tried to get to the Palace of Fine Arts, a vast marble theater so heavy it had sunk two dozen feet into Mexico City’s dry lakebed since it was built in the mid-1800s. We could see it looming over the lesser buildings, but the randomness of the street layout made it hard to approach. Finally, we discovered a six lane boulevard leading directly to the Palace. As soon as my dad turned on to it, a policeman blew his whistle. Suddenly, six cars abreast came roaring at us — it was a one-way street.
The traffic cop was standing right under where the One-Way sign should have been. He, or a predecessor, probably took it down to increase business. Police sergeants auction off the most lucrative corners in Mexico City, so the lowly patrolmen who win the rights to a tourist-heavy spot like this have to be enterprising just to break even on bribe rake-offs, much less turn a profit.
Sure, we really need more of these people in this country, in addition to the 11 million who have already snuck in illegally.
June 13th, 2013 at 08:54
The good news for the Mexican immigrants is that they shouldn’t have much trouble adjusting to the Obama Administration’s corruption.