Viva la Mexico!

Have spent the last few weeks in Mexico and what a great time it was. Mexico City, the second largest city on earth, slowly but surely sinking into the pre-Hispanic ruins and marshes upon which it was built by the conquistadores, was surprisingly relaxing in the historic center. I had been expecting a lot more chaos, but it had a village feel, and the lack of pollution and absence of criminal elements didn't seem too warrant the bad press this city constantly gets.
Rivera's murals are truly impressive for their scale and dynamism. Interesting that Rivera equates capitalism with social decandence and communism with humanism, and yet his blue house that he shared with Frida Kahlo is an expansive mansion far beyond the means of many Mexicans even today, and so he appears to have been very much part of the establishment rather than an authentically "revolutionary" thinker and activist.