Last weekend I went to this film festival (http://www.moreliafilmfest.com/) in Morelia. It was great to spend a weekend in such a beautiful city just watching films from all over the world.
We saw films from Italy, the US and England (a film called Helen which I thought was pretentious rubbish) but the best was definately Abrazos Rotos by Almodover, which while still quirky enough to be an Almodover was very funny and popular with everyone.
The festival is very well run making Morelia a popular location for the weekend but not over crowded nor over priced.
The city centre of Morelia is a world heritage site and also the capital of the state of Michoacan (famous for narcos.) The Spanish established a mission convent in the city and named it Valladolid in 1541. It is full of beautiful Spanish arhitecture and unlike in D.F the city is clean and well maintained (I'm told this was helped by the current governer who kicked all of the puestos [stalls/sellers] out of the centre.)
While Michoacan is well known for drugs and drug related crime (beheadings and the like), as one taxi driver explained this has very little effect on the people living here who are not involved in the drug scene. The Morelians seem calm, laid back people making Morelia an even nicer place to visit.
Anyway, back in D.F life is chaos once again with the Luz y Fuerza electritans' union marching down the main road (Reforma) all of yesterday making traffic an even bigger nightmare than usual. It seems Calderon has taken a very small leaf out of Maggie's book by shutting down this inefficient, corrupt and powerul union (there are still many more to go.) While he is offering 33 months redundancy payment it still means unemployment due to corruption amongst government and union leaders. And chaos to everyone else.
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