There’s a reason–like you say– that private school educated folks like your fianc√©e and her family can come to America and succeed extremely rapidly. That reason is wealth. There’s a reason that L√≥pez Obrador almost won the elections in Mexico last year. That reason is poverty.
“Perfecting democracy” in Mexico by Calder√≥n? Let’s wait and see. In any case, “perfecting democracy” is a rather “populist” goal in the first place. “Improving the situation”, on the other hand, if this means the “economic situation” of the vast majority in Mexico is life-or-death for the nation. If Calder√≥n fails here, then L√≥pez Obrador will win in 2012.
As for the six years of so-called hard-won progress by Fox, well, from close up it looks more like six years of effort to elevate the image of Vicente Fox to heroic status. I don’t think there’s a better example of such a brilliant politican becomming such a failure as a statesman. The result of all his hard work was L√≥pez Obrador. He has to take responsibility for that, since what you like to call the ignorant masses would not vote against Fox’s party if they had more prosperity, or even the hope of more prosperity.
Of course Mexicans are not “anti american”. There’s a reason why they go the the US and that reason is the failure of the Fox government to create an economy that would give them hope.
