I've been living in Mexico city for the last 18 months and visiting Senora regularly for a couple of years before that. Mexico is a country rich in resources but with very little production. What there is is largely foreign owned. Given solid law enforcement, and some stimulus to encourage new businesses to harness the resources that are available, Mexico could do very well. The corrupting influence of drug exports to the US however is simply too much to bear for law enforcement in local communities that often have little else on which to survive. Mexico has the feel of a country preparing to move forwards though, the millennial generation has very different expectations to their parents. There's a vision building for what they want to see their country become and it doesn't include drugs. The people are ready for a big change but until prohibition ends in the US the existing power structures will hold them where they are.
