The Guadalajara Reporter

U.S. and Mexican governments vie to be the most puzzling, contradictory and inept

The governments of the United States and Mexico presently seem to be competing for the leadership of the Western Hemisphere and EU Cup for a number of widely unembraced categories.  These include, a cyber-addicted Mexican acquaintance suggested last Tuesday: possessing the most contradictions, being the most puzzling (and/or foolish), the most inept and corrupt.

In some of these categories, not too long ago, he believed Mexico was several furlongs ahead of the U.S.  But the combination of the laughably, if dourly ridiculous politicians and politics in both countries, besides breaking him up, surprised him, not in the case of his own country, but in the case of the United States. His parents, who had once lived in the U.S., admired that country, and he was reared with their reverence for not only its wealth, its immense inventory of groundbreaking inventions and its superpower status, but also for the free range offered its residents.  This prompted among migrants remarkable energy, persistent vigor, as they aspired to rub shoulders with the United States’ frontier-breaking, world-influencing boldness in seemingly every area of human endeavor.     

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