A 5 year old boy, who is patiealnt zero in the swine flu outbreak, has done what the drug cartels, rampant and far-reaching corruption and lots of recent bad press could not. He has single handedly ground the Mexican economy to a screeching half, with president Calderone ordering all non-essential workers to stay home for 5 days.
Edgar Hernandez lives in the southern Mexican town of La Gloria, where more than 450 people — out of a population of 3,000 — have complained of respiratory problems.
The corruption and complete ineptitude of Mexican law enforcement were made quite clear over the last couple of years. Reports of foreigners being killed, imprisoned, or robbed have either been ignored, swept under the rug, or more repugnantly, the problems were just blamed on the foreigners altogether.
We are therefore, likely not shocked that Mexican health authorities are just as terrible as their law enforcement counterparts. Personally, I still don’t see why tourists, especially Canadians, continue to flock there for vacation when several murders of Canadian tourists, some right on resorts, have gone unsolved.
