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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (44639)	9/17/2002 1:40:51 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sounds like a real nasty place to do business... You just have to know the rules. I was wholesaling cars to a couple of guys in Mexicali when I was in College in San Diego in 1957. 49 and 50 Chevies, (the cars had to be 7 years old) for about $300 a pop. I treated them square, and we became friendly. I took them up on an invite to spend a weekend there. It was memorable. (Hey, I was 22, single, and "had more Seaman than the 5th Fleet.") They were both members of the Senate of Sonora and we were treated like Kings wherever we went. I came back from that weekend realizing that you were either in the ruling class down there, or you were scum. That experience colored my travels over the border from then on. I just missed getting picked up in a raid on a gambling hall in Rosarita the next year because I had the "Word," (The Americans caught spent up to six months getting out,) and my mouthy teen age Brother in Law got himself worked over in a Tijuana by the Cops. My motto since has been, "Hey, its tough enough making a living in this country, don't go looking for problems elsewhere!"