This is just funny - "...the whitest people imaginable."

Fred Reed is a cantankerous former jarhead and reporter/police writer/war correspondent. Now living a semi-retired life down in Mexico he writes a regular web-column. His most recent consisted of responses to folks asking about life in Mexico, and he provided links & advice to sources of info and help.

His bit on the Consulate there just cracked me up.

Fred On Everything:

"US Consulate, Guadalajara Rude, incompetent, generally useless, but perhaps suitable in a pinch. For what, I don't know.

Like American embassies and consulates everywhere, the consulate in Guad cowers behind bars and rentaguards and is terrified of practically everything. You can't take lipstick inside, for example, though to be truthful, I've never wanted to. The employees do not seem to like veterans and to have little in common with Mexicans. The ones I have met have been too white-wine-and-cheese for a country that is more Squirt-and-tequila. They are the whitest people imaginable in a brown country."