I am Mexican (living in Mexico City) and a medical doctor, so I know what I talk about. You can get almost everything-- except for a few opiate painkillers and some psychiatric drugs without a mexican prescription.

Out of the top of my head, stuff you would need prescription for would be: any codeine-based painkiller (such as Tylex CD), Oxycontin, buprenorphine, Valium (and most sleeping pills), phenobarbital, you get the picture.

YOU DON'T NEED a prescription for antibiotics, regular painkillers, some psychiatric drugs such as Prozac and even Viagra.

The thing is, "Mexican Law" applies in Mexico. Tijuana, in many aspects is not Mexico. It is a land of endless opportunity for every corrupt mexican goverment officer and many willing and/or sleazy americans. I am certain that the writer that said thet she had been able to buy all kinds of things without problems has done so in cities far from the border. In Mexico City, or even Monterrey you can get pretty much anything you want without any prescription. Of course, if you get stopped by the police, you are going to have to explain what those are for. But that happens in America too, as I have had to produce (self made!) prescriptions when crossing the border with dozens of pills for my ailing aunt in Phoenix, AZ.

I have no doubt that the drugstore owners are in collusion with the local authorities. And I am shamed. I would not be surprised either if there were real, licensed, bonafide mexican doctors selling legit prescriptions in some of those pharmacies or in a nearby location. I bet the seller would now. Corruption is big in my country. And it shames me. Too bad it will be like that for a long time. There is just so many people that can't make an honest living and would prefer to go the easy way.

Any American that has any doubt as to wheter a particular drug needs prescription, can reach me on my URL. I would be happy to help.

I still prefer the vagina dialogues.

She is the Energy Minister.

And all this issue is a big IF. Right now the law reform has not been discussed because the left-wing party has seized Congress and the Senate and there's no solution in sight at this time. They argue that issuing such bonds is unconstitutional because PEMEX must be run exclusively by the goverment-- which it has done very poorly since 1938.

If Mexico's oil industry does not go through some major changes, current oil reserves will be gone by 2017.

You can talk all day about peak oil and whatnot but your oil industry is far better than ours.

I would buy Mexico and have a trillion 5 left over

I would call it Robotanica

-- Electro Robot

I wouldn't sell you my house ;)

Maybe for the extra trillion

He was from Argentina, not from Cuba, hence his nickname "Che" which is a way people in Argentina call each other. Kind of like people in the US call each other "dude".

Guess we are both right.

From Wikipedia:

It is an exclamation, often used to get attention or express surprise, and so it corresponds in some ways to exclamations such as "hey!", "eh!" and "wow!". It is also used in a vocative sense as though it meant "friend", and thus corresponds in some ways to expressions such as "mate", "pal", "man", or "dude" that can be found in the speech of various English speakers. Like these words, it may be used both before or after a phrase: "Man, this is some good beer", or, "Let's go get a beer, man." ("Che, está buena la cerveza." or "Vamos a buscar unas cervezas, che.")

Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_%28Spanish%29

Just if anyone is wondering, the article in spanish says the same thing.

Oh, and I think that Che is way to ill-suited as a role model/pop icon as would be Stalin or Pol Pot or Hussain or Bin Laden or whatever madman you can think of. Whatever good intentions he might have had about freeing people were later completely misdirected. I don't remember the exact quote (I'll look it up) but he said something along the lines of starting a Vietnam in every Latin-American country. Some KGB documents declassified around ten years ago revealed that they had pretty strong reasons to think that Che would push for the use of the nuclear missiles if provided to Cuba. He was one of those that thought a nuclear war could be winnable or at least believed in "nuclear suicide".

To this day I don't know what is so romantic about him and why do so many people wear his image without knowing (or caring) what he stood for, only because it is cool, it is trendy and he was kind of good-looking. But that goes for a lot of historical figures as well.

I loved GNR a lot back in the day and I am glad that one of their former members is doing something like this. I just wonder, does this play on regular TV in the US?

It would be unfair, maybe, to mention it, but somebody will: back in the day GNR were somewhat homophobic. But I always thought that it was not a real sentiment (c'mon! Axl loved Elton John and Freddie Mercury), but something you just had to say not to lose "street cred". So, please, let's just enjoy this without irony.