May all gods forgive me, but I chuckle about the regular explosions occurring around México. This has nothing to do with narco wars, just the incompetence of Mexico to regulate itself.
The recent news of 15 deaths involving a robbery of a Mexico oil pipeline is just a minor figure in the statistics of gas pipeline and tanks explosions, petroleum explosions, fireworks explosions, and even car explosions.
Here in beautiful downtown Catemaco, events are relatively quiet this year, with only the occasional similacrum of an Afghanistan bomb sounding fire cracker being exploded.
For several previous years, I seriously wanted to buy ear muffs to protect myself and my dog, except of course for the occasional touristic fireworks that sometimes are superlative when some governmental tinhead decides to sponsor one.
Meanwhile everyone is anxiously awaing the burning of the "viejo" at the end of the year in Catemaco.
That is when hundreds of houses in Catermaco plant a manequin of an old man in front of their homes, stuffed with junk and fireworks to explode on New Years eve.
Just make sure your car is a block away, if you can find one that's not occupied by a manequin.
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