Spectacularly over budget, embarrassingly behind schedule (the Bicentennial was last September), excessively reliant on foreign suppliers, surrounded by defensive and incompetent bureaucrats, laughed at by its countrymen and, like the Torre Latinoamericana before it, basically a rip-off of a New York City landmark, "Trail of Light" is, in our opinion, the apotheosis of Mexicanismo, right down to the misguided foreign press coverage.
More here.
Bonus Crowbar Award Nominee: Kudos to the Beeb for this:
The Trail of Light... is meant to be a legacy for future generations, a symbol of hope in a country troubled by gang-related violence.
The drug conflict that has killed more than 30,000 people since late 2006, when the Mexican government launched a war on the cartels.
Awesome.
5 comments:
Mira Burro, productos chinos:
http://tejiendoelmundo.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/germany.jpg?w=400&h=300
What a fitting tribute to Mexico.
OK. That's really weird. Does the BBC have it in for Mexico? Or was that just an accidental mish-mash?
And what's with the photo linked by anonymous? Or is that just another example of someone inserting the wrong bit?
Uh, the bicentennial of Independence isn't until 2021... and of the Republic in 2024. Plenty of time.
Good point. I still remember picnicking with my family at the big Boston Pops concert for the US Bicentennial on September 3, 1984.
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