Foreign Native

People who spend time worrying about the large number of monopolies in Mexico should perhaps check out the cutthroat competition for listeners on the morning radio news shows, which take to the airwaves around 5:30 am or 6 am and don’t let go of them until 9 or 10 am. Then they start up again [...]

For variety, there’s little that can beat the entertainers and purveyors of unwanted services who work the traffic lights of Mexico City. Apart from a veritable army of windshield cleaners and vendors of newspapers, loose cigarettes, phone cards , sweets, toys, maps and so on, also competing for space at the capital’s junctions are jugglers, [...]