Mexican Make-Out Session - Conclusion

The long anticipated make out session finally took place earlier today in Mexico City, and the record was won.  Nearly 40000 convened on Valentine's Day (the exact number was 39897, an odd number, which keeps making me laugh), to "show love" when drug-related violence and other unpleasantness seem to dominate the Mexican world.  City workers volunteered to give out hugs, and teenage males wandered around with posters offering their services.  After all kisses were held for 10 seconds, the popular ranchera singer Vincente Fernandez gave a free concert.  While having little to do directly to the politics of Mexico, it does present a different setting and image for our southern neighbor, considering a good number of previous posts involve in some way guns, drugs, or druggies with guns.  And it does illustrate the social climate of Mexico, with open affection and probably an even greater national pride.  Demonstrations of this magnitude would be difficult for countries with a careless public, and one can only wonder how many would vote in national elections, provided it was not required.

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Mexican Make-Out Session

Interesting tidbit here:  Mayor Eduardo Romero of Guanajuato has urged people to gather at his city on Valentine's Day and break the world record for most people simultaneously kissing at one place.  He will need nearly 7000 couples in order to beat the record set in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina.  This attempt is largely to dispel accusations that his new anti-obscenity laws prohibited kissing, an infringement on the civil liberties which we have come to regard so closely with democracy.

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