Having his cake and eating it

摘要

One way to avoid getting stuck in the mire of the Mexican tax code is to ensure that you're far away when attempts are made to change it. So while Agustfn Carstens, the finance minister, was delivering to Congress on June 20th the most ambitious economic reform package of Felipe Calderon's six-month-old administration, the president himself was off in Huamantla, a small mountain town 120km (75 miles) east of Mexico City.