Some years ago, I began to include GPS coordinates in some of my articles and noticed they were mysteriously vanishing once the article reached the editor’s desk. When I asked the editor about this, he suggested that long strings of arcane numbers might make readers suspect that the place was hard to find, but added: “Why don’t you write us an article on the GPS and explain it all?”

Mariano Azuela’s 1916 Revolutionary novel “The Underdogs” provided not only the earliest break with traditional Mexican literary architecture, but the earliest break with what would become the institutionalized myth that Mexico’s 1910-1929 Revolution was ushering in democracy.  “Los de Abajo” (the novel’s Spanish title) actually was his second novel sounding the death knell of the revolutionary idealism of both Mexican intellectuals and peasants. The first, “Andrés Perez, maderista,” was didactic and dry.

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It’s the same old story. Folks who follow driving rules to the ‘nth degree in their own country seem to feel that they are exempt in the new one. Somehow the idea of driving the proper direction on streets marked as “one way” is just too much of a bother.