The issue of poverty has never been far from the top of the agenda in Mexico, but its magnitude continues to burn a hole in the argument that the country is a modern, dynamic state.
“The poor people of Mexico don’t have a voice. The poor people of Mexico don’t have a way of pressuring the government. The poor people of Mexico that don’t have power groups, those poor people are the priority of my government,” said President Felipe Calderon in Huatlatlauca, Puebla two weeks ago.
These words make no impression on Cesar Sanchez, a 22-year-old university graduate, who takes home 6,000 pesos a month. Rent payments (2,500 pesos in a downscale Guadalajara neighborhood), diapers for his two-year-old daughter and food for the family leaves very little left over.
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