Bitácora personal de Pepe Flores

“Let’s face it — Americans have had it with the post-9/11 world. Enough with the suicidal jihadists and all their “-stans” a world away. Enough with the endless occupation of a Mesopotamia divided along sectarian lines. Enough with warring against terror, which sounds more like a means than an entity or a true ideology. Can you really get any satisfaction out of wrestling with a means, instead of a subject? Mexico is so refreshingly 9/10. The fact that the bad guys there — and they are truly nasty — are not driven by religion or ideology, but are just in it for the money, is reassuringly retro. Still next door and still a mess, though not quite Pakistan, Mexico is a place Americans can always go back to, the way one goes back to basics, or the girl next door.“

- Andrés Martínez, en 2009: The Year America discovered Mexico, explicando el súbito interés mediático de Estados Unidos en nuestro país.