From darkness, dawn

摘要

The Apocalypse Was on its way, and it would begin in Mexico. Where else? When archaeologists dug up Mayan calendars that ominously seemed to run out in the final days of 2012, some doomsayers predicted the end of the world. To many Mexicans it seemed like just another example of their country's unending run of bad luck. The steepest recession on the American mainland, a plague of hini swine flu and a deepening war against organised crime had made the preceding few years fairly grim.