But wouldn't be irresponsible hubris for Gates to meddle in Mexico? It was when William Randolph Hearst meddled in Mexico.

If "social revolution in Mexico" looks like "social revolution in Egypt" then I fail to see a probable upside.

ok, call it 'social rearrangement'. Lets make Mexico more democratic, give more power to people, protect elections, and give basic income to every Mexican. Gates's money is more than enough to provide basic income to 10 generations of mexican people. Will never happen though.

I happen to work with someone who is still a citizen of Mexico living in the US ( there is family land in Mexico and he can't keep it and be a US citizen ) , and according to him, it's extremely complicated. The big complicating factor is probably the US War on Drugs.

But he has stories - like his brother fixed up a car nicely. There's a tax on that, and the car was simply taken, and his brother was taken to jail.

If you slosh money around in Mexico, chances are that somebody will take it upon themselves to collect it for themselves.

All this being said, Mexico itself seems to be slowly becoming less poor over time. They are, ironically, starting to have problems with people from Central and South America, both criminals an ostensibly non-criminals.

This is just fascinating. Thank you for sharing that.