title: Mexico Unexplained: The Magic, Mysteries and Miracles of Mexico
author: Robert Bitto
description: Author Robert Bitto has had over 25 years of experience in Mexico, as a student, as an employee for a large multinational corporation and as an owner of an imports business founded in 1999, Sueos Latin American Imports. In addition to his MBA and BBA, Robert holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico.
zlib_text: John D. MacDonald
  
  Dress Her In Indigo
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ON THAT early afternoon in late August, Meyer and I walked through the canvas
  tunnel at Miami International and boarded a big bird belonging to Aeronaves de
  Mexico for the straight shot to Mexico City. We were going first class because
  it was all a private and personal and saddening mission at the behest of a
  very sick and fairly rich man.
  
  We had the bulkhead seats on the port side because I am enough inches beyond
  six feet to cherish the extra knee room.
  
  Tourist cards in order, cash in the moneybelts, under-seat luggage only. And
  the unfamiliarly sedate wardrobes of the airborne businessman because there is
  a constant flow of them back and forth, the systems analysts and the plant
  location experts, the engineers and the salesmen, importers and exporters, con
  men and investment specialists. The Mexican peso is rock solid, the economy
  roaring, and the population zooming past fifty mil lion. So it is protective
  coloration to join t