[Aztlan] Mexico's Message

[Michael Smith]

David Hixon made most of the points about driving in Mexico that I
wanted to make. I have been driving in Mexico while working on
archaeological projects since 1974 (mostly  in central Mexico, and to
and from the border in Texas or Arizona). I have found that corruption
by local police is a highly localized and variable phenomenon, one that
affects not just visitors but Mexican drivers as well. I found a
DRAMATIC DROP in traffic corruption about 20 years ago. On my current
project, (fieldwork since 2006), I have had only one such incident, but
then I WAS going the wrong way on a one-way street.......

Michael E. Smith, Professor
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University
www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9
http://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com
http://calixtlahuaca.blogspot.com

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