I liked this article, except for this part:<p>&quot;...his home country, where the middle class is burgeoning but almost half the population still lives in poverty.&quot;<p>This is a naive claim, it may appear so because people here in Mexico (specially in urban areas) spend a lot on bars, restaurants, vacations, gadgets and even cars.<p>What the author oversees is that this same people have not enough savings in the bank to survive even a couple of months without a job, owe lots of money to the bank and are unable to acquire more relevant goods like a home.<p>What the author calls middle class are in fact poor people with lots of toys and lots of credit cards.