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In passing, still deliriously happy for having left the U.S. scene for a brief period, I posted on Twitter some good impressions from my week in Mexico City, which I enjoyed enormously. And of course, my outlook suffered from the usual tourist bias in which we see only the good, the beautiful, the fun, and the delights, and can easily neglect all the downsides that natives experience by the day.
On the other hand, a corrective to the American pop wisdom is in order. In the United States, when you say you are going to Mexico, you will be hit with all sorts of advice about avoiding imminent death at the hands of the cartel or some such. That struck me from my experience as complete nonsense....