The first question on my job interview was the following "Do you have any security concern about coming to Pakistan?". I wanted to laugh, because this being an skype interview, it was done at 6 am in Culiacan, Sinaloa, while my interloper was in Lahore at 18 pm. Of course I said no, Culiacan has taught me many things, the principal being of course that you shouldn't trust media that much when in comes to war/internal stryfe. Or maybe it has taught me that life is mundane even in the times of bullets.
This of course was before the whole ding dong Osama is dead thing, which altered my resolve even when I tried to get most of my news from Al Jazeera. My interviewer assured me that it was far more important to consider the weather, hot and humid, than the whole 'terrorist' thing. I assured her that Culiacan prepared me for a pakistani summer -except without monsoons, ours is the rain of desert, quite squallid and quite a joyous-. Even to this day, they keep mentioning the heat. "It's quite intense" they say, and I wonder why everyone things their heat is special, they don't even fry eggs in the hood of their cars! (I asked. Really). Heat is serious bussiness in Sinaloa.
Anyway, the Security concern is always there, mostly because it is the first thing people who I tell about my incoming trip ask about. And my argument is always "I don't think it's that more dangerous than mexico". So I did an experiment, I googleed Pakistan and looked at all the images: the first one is the flag, followed by gruesome murder, bearded men with ak-47 -different from the mustached men with ak-47 I'm familiar with-, women in burkas protesting the USA, the usual. And I thought: surely Mexico must have a similar result what with all our narcoviolence and 'quasi failed' state cred. But no: just your usual jalapeños and flags everywhere. So: VICTORY FOR FELIPE BECAUSE AT LEAST OUR INTERNATIONAL IMAGE IS BETTER THAN PAKISTAN according to google at least.
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