At the Jewish cemetery in Mexico City

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. It is not about crying a river

These people were friends of my dad, and they made their fortunes after the holocaust. So they are near that point. But they are rather religious, and terrified. I once quipped about guilty consciousness...oh the glares.

They are not monsters though. In Mexico getting credit for newly arrived immigrants in the 1950s was quite impossible, so they did make loans to many of the people who were selling baubles in the streets who came from Europe to start business. I calculate that they are directly or indirectly responsible for over 20K jobs.

As I once told my dad, that was a different Mexico. But just from net worth, they are up there. And death absolutely terrifies them.

In other words, ironically, they were job creators to use a favorite turn of phrase, and they invested locally. They were micro loans, before the term was invented.