I much admire and celebrate what you have done for the “four very talented young students” you put through university and the intelligent way you went about it. I must take exception, however, to your reflexive hostility to American universities. I spent 35 years in higher education — from Catholic colleges to state universities — and I have never found them to be the hotbed of radical leftists that you assert. Everywhere I have been there has been a breadth of political opinion from hard right to hard left but with most very much in the moderate middle. I’m guessing that your principal news source is Fox News or its equivalent, one that sews hatred and contempt for any who don’t fit the right wing mold. It’s a shame.

Congratulations on their success! And your money saving skills. So many university and college graduates in the US are saddled with student loans. I worked three jobs a day in the US to pay my tuition and fees. Fortunately, I received an academic scholarship in my junior and senior to offset the cost but still had to work part time. I went to a large state, public university. Mexico is so right to provide postsecondary studies at public universities tuition free.

Thank you for clarifying. It’s great that people can receive a post secondary degree and graduate loan free.

That’s wonderful. I love my life here in Mexico. Will never return to the US to live.

There is no way we could have done this in the U.S. And frankly we think they have gotten a much better education at Iteso than they would have at any of those highly leftist politicized and dumbed down “universities” in the U.S. The three who haave graduated are all doing very well and the fourth will likely have multiple job offers when she graduates in December.

I agree with you!! Thank you Louisa for an enlightening article!!

Very nice report…Mexico how ever has a very dark side where the Cartels have taken over areas throughout Mexico killing anyone that gets in their way, Reporters, Police, and aspiring Politicians. We have been traveling throughout Mexico for over 35 years and Love the people as they are the most hospitable you will find. A lot of them refugees from other parts of the country. We spend a lot of time in the Yucatan considered the safest of all Mexico…Have been throughout the country over the years.