Soul-searching amid the debris

摘要

LAST year should have been one long fies ta for Mexico, which celebrated both the centenary of its revolution against Por firio Diaz, its walrus-moustached dictator, and the bicentenary of its independence from Spain. Instead, the country found it self in a funk: the opening of its economy to foreign trade in the 1990s had not led to the leap in living standards many had hoped for, and the arrival of real democra.