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To: CIMA who wrote (36)	8/27/2000 2:50:56 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 143

Heh heh ... exactamente ... well, exactamente in an ideal world, anyway ... lately the older generations in México are concerned that the young want money for the wrong reasons ... well, this is likely true in all cultures at all times, but it does seem as if the increasing economic opportunities are reducing the emphasis on family ... which in a way is a good thing, as there is most certainly no longer an underpopulation problem but rather the opposite ... still, there is fear that the core values will be lost along with the drive to multiply ... [two hours ago i heard a diatribe by a man with eight or ten children, whose daughter wants none] [well, she's young yet] One week ago today there was an election in Chiapas, they booted out the PRI ... if two years ago you had told me that i would have said you were nuts ... the very toughest state of all, the PRI was much more than a party, it was a ruling system ... well not any more, word is that on monday morning there started perceptible distancing from it on the part of the various caciques ... a few amusing stories, for instance one local owner of a colectivo monopoly had the priísta colors on his peseros, now he's having them repainted -g- ... the new governor, Pablo Salazar, heads an alliance that spans from left of perredistas to right of the panistas, so it's hard to say how long it will last ... but the PRI is out, and that's the beginnings of the invention of democracy. washingtonpost.com espanol.yahoo.com We're buying a new piece of land, and contributing to the building of my brother in law's house, then he will help us with our new one later ... trying to get a net connection into the local school, not much luck so far but it will come ... when it does i'll be able to get here from there.