March 2009
2 posts
From a review in the Washington Post of a book by Joseph Contreras about Mexico:
The dictator Porfirio Diaz, who ruled Mexico for three decades in the late 1800s and early 1900s, is often credited with saying, “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.” If Diaz were alive today, Contreras writes, he might say, “Poor Mexico, so close to the United States, so...
