Readings: Taxes, The Church and Mexico Health Care
He Who Must Not Be Named: Monsignor Hugo Valdemar - whose humility inspires only some Catholics.
Just when I put up our own Guide to Expat Taxes as part of our ever growing guide to living in Mexico – the folks at Mexico Insight do me one better with a really complete post on all things Banking and Taxes and Credit Cards. Compare those 63.8% interest rates to the mere 27.99% that this guy is complaining about. People wonder why I say that Mexico is the Future of America.
Luckily – with MexFiles calm and serene voice of reason, I only have to shake with rage at the Catholic Church long enough to type a few words here. Read this all too reasonable and informative exposé on how you don’t have to be a gringo Evangelical to blurs the lines between church and state in Mexico.
I’d honestly wondered what happened to the Gringa in San Miguel. She picked it up with a good long explanation on HealthCare in Mexico -one that I won’t soon out-do.
Lastly, Roberto Ramos is the founder and creater of the VoxCollective ad and marketing agency. And too many tossings around of the word “Latino” still bug me – (I’m one of those people who thought the Latins were absorbed into something else with the Rape of the Sabines.) But Ramos’s reading of Jorge Volpi’s El Insomnio de Bolívar, is not going to get the attention it deserves – I think Ramos is onto something in believing that
…this smorgasbord group [Latinos in the US] of forty million representing close to over 20 nations, different levels of Spanish, and with a shared migration from Latin America and its troubles, represents the future of Latin America in a global setting. This presents interesting opportunities for Latinos in the United States to play a stronger role in shaping a global Latin economy and culture.
I still think “Latino” is a gross marketing niche, like Generation Y, and I am always pleased that it baffles Mexicans – as much as it does me. But if Americans who descend from the peoples of Central and South America – and Mexico – can start leading the region – then more power to them and to Bolivar in the US.
