There is several issues that are a hidrance for the economic development of Mexico, but one of the few that worries me the most are the monopolies.We have public and private monopolies, but we have monopolies in basically all our industries (telecommunications with telmex, oil with pemex, banks with banamex and bancomer, media with Televisa and TV Azteca). We all know the damage monopolies do, but there are some effects even more sutile. I found a story on slashdot about a new vector of attack called drive-by pharming. It basically configuring your router to change the IP address associated with a DNS name, you can read the detail in the article (btw I am quite sure I received that email). The first time this attack has been found on the wild was in Mexico. That doesn't surprise me the least; the big problem is that Telmex (and prodigy which is their ISP) being a monopoly have basically create a humongous homogeneous network of misconfigured routers. I am also guessing that the bank that is attacked is Banamex, which is another big monopoly.