[ido]

Actually these days Mexico is a fairly well developed country with decent internet penetration.

[petercooper]

But drivingmenuts said "Since the Internet is not as widespread in Mexico [...]"

Even Mexico's own numbers (by AMIPCI) show Internet usage at 27.2% of the population vs the US's 77%. This is even lower than the ITU's estimate of 43.5% penetration for Albania.

Stats: http://www.internetworldstats.com/

[crpatino]

Mexico's population is over 100 million people. That is what gives it a seat among the big world economies in spite of having low per capita economic stats.

How many Albanias do feet inside Mexico City alone?

[kingkawn]

Yeah I was about to say, Mexico is not 3rd world by any metric.

[bpodgursky]

As long as you ignore the "thousands of people killed each year by drug cartels which the police and military are unable to control" metric

[kingkawn]

Mexico is the 14th largest economy in the world. Drug cartels are not the only thing happening there.

[armandososa]

What? I don't know what the metrics are to define what world a country belongs to. But unless our corrupt politicians pay somebody I think we well deserve to be in 4th or 5th world :P

[pyre]

Yea, but are those in power still looking for handouts if you want to stay out of trouble?