{"id":3807,"date":"2012-09-21T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2012-09-21T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T21:24:38","slug":"troubles-in-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"Troubles in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mcflag.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3808\" title=\"mcflag\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mcflag.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mcflag.png 350w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mcflag-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Two years ago I attended a conference in Mexico City. We had many pleasant conversations with our hosts, who sadly told us that these days, Mexico City may be the safest part of the country&#8230; not because it is any safer than it was 20 years ago (when it qualified as the least safe) but because the rest of the country went downhill as a result of a perpetual drug war.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I find <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2012\/09\/20\/mexico-deploys-troops-to-outskirts-of-mexico-city-to-combat-rise-in-drug-violence\/\">these latest news<\/a> so disturbing: it seems that the drug war may have reached a suburb of Mexico City. It appears that not even the capital is immune anymore.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3807' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I attended a conference in Mexico City. We had many pleasant conversations with our hosts, who sadly told us that these days, Mexico City may be the safest part of the country&#8230; not because it is any safer than it was 20 years ago (when it qualified as the least safe) but <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3807' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-5-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}