300 Weeks

Writing About Mexico Is Seldom Easy; The Country'S Dynamics Make It Almost Impossible To Isolate Any Bit Of Data Without Having It Grow Obsolete In A Very Short Span Of Time. Sometimes Its Hard For A Mexican To Understand Our Own Cultural Idiosyncrasies It Is Complex For A Person Of A Different Nationality To Do So.I Began Writing My Weekly Column In A Very Interesting Time For Mexico. The Country Was Passing Thru The Beginning Stages Of Shedding Its Inadequate Third World Status And Struggling To Evolve And Become A Modern State.It Is Very Diffi Cult For A Person Unfamiliar With Mexican History Or Culture To Judge And At Times Avoid Being Prejudicial For The Relative Slowness Of The Process Toward Advance; In An Effort To Place My Readers Into A Proper Frame Of Mind I Have Taken The Liberty Of Borrowing A Term Not Customarily Used In Political Science I Often Refer To Mexico'S Progression As Evolution This Term Implies Perfectly The Three Key Characteristics Of The Development Process . . . Transformation Survival And Time.After Time Some Observers Have Come Across Another Frequent And Disconcerting Feature . . . . Concurrency; The Mexican Theater Has Many Stages And Each One Has A Different Drama Author And Actors. To Make Matters More Complicated All Plays Are Playing Simultaneously In Different Acts.Explaining The Mexican Drama To Non-Mexicans Is Quite A Challenge. Trying To Translate Words From One Viewpoint To Another Only Requires Language Skills (This Can Be Easily Accessed With Any English-Spanish Dictionary); But Communicating Concepts And Ideas If They Are To Be Understood Needs The Foundation Of What Call I Cultural Interface.For Understanding Mexico Cultural Interface Is An Essential Requirement; Mexican Words Or Expressions Although Adequately Translated Seldom Mean The Same Political Terminology Never Does.