One of my favorite films about the potential rewards and fatal pitfalls of being a small town mayor in rural Mexico is La ley de Herodes (Herod's Law). You can find it on Netflix if your local video store doesn't have it. It's a very funny satirical look at political corruption that will be especially relevant to those oldsters among us who remember when Mexico was essentially a one-party system under PRI. --Frank Binney
On 8/30/10 5:08 PM, "Gill Edigar" <gi...@att.net> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:16 AM, David <dlocklea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There is a town along the highway to Ciudad Victoria called Hidalgo. >> It is just northeast of the Purificacion area. >> The mayor of that town was found shot to death today. > > Geography lesson for the day. > The city of Hidalgo is as you described it. It is also the seat of > government for the Municipio de Hidalgo (more or less the status of a > county in Texas) which, by chance, is the Municipio in which Conrado > Castillo exists politically, though in the farthest southwest corner. > The owners and inhabitants of Conrado Castillo have always been > treated like an orphan child out in the far reaches of the boondocks > by the perpetually corrupt government in Hidalgo. > I think this is not the first mayor that's been shot there in the > past 50 years. Being a local politician in Mexico is fraught with much > fear and uncertainty. The perceived rewards of office must make them > worth running for. After all, not everybody dies in office. Most walk > away rich--or richer, at least--than when they entered though not > without some ulcers. > --Ediger > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
