Mexico - The return - Some politics, our magical mystery tours and hammocks
July 12th 2006 Hi all,
Back again, waiting for the bus in Pochutla to take us up to Mexico city - a 15 hour haul and poor old Olga has a cold - but it is the next leg of our journey heading up north to the border with the US. We crossed back over to San Christobal in Mexico two days before the presidential elections here. We thought it would be an interesting time to be in Mexico, especially as there were str
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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more 
