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Hetalia pulque and pisco

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I´m finally getting my Schedule sorted out in the next weeks. Remember that job I was getting a few months ago? Well, I finally got it and started working last week (there is very little job mobility in México, it requires time, money and contacts no matter how well prepared you are and tramits and burocratic paperwork is HELL ) .
Also my work hours are not that well, although Its supposedly the standar 8 hrs a day , 5 days a week I travel 1 and half hours to get there and in peak subway hours, meaning that I lose 3 hours a day on transport . I´m working under honorariums, which means I have no rights (like social security) , but even so its better than what many can get and than some other jobs I saw (similar salaries but even farther away to get to). I arrive back at my home between 7:30 or 8 and I have to get up at 6 or 6:30 the next day.

So as soon as I settle a bit more I´ll be able to plan a better schedule for my activities and restart posting the comic strip and other stuff at more regular intervals 

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The world knows Tequila and Mezcal to be THE Mexican drinks, however those were developed way later than Pulque, the original prehispanic beverage. But don´t think that people got drunk on it (at least not often). Getting drunk was a VERY severe crime and heavily punished (consider that Spain during his inquisition times was horrified at some of Aztec Empire´s customs… Hypocrite ).

After the conquista, the bane on the consumption of the beverage to only nobles and special occasions was lifted and it spread through all the population, then with the porfiriato´s industrialization and thanks to the railroads the pulque could be delivered faster (pulque can bo bad in a matter of 1-3 days) and MANY pulquerias or pulcatas (pulque bars/pubs) were established, those were a bit like pubs in the sense that they were also places for social gather. It was around this time and after the revolution that beer companies started a campaign to discredit pulque (by the way, mariguana plant also suffered a discredit campaing and you can see the results today) .
So now it still suffers from prejudge but pulque is surging again and some very interesting and fun proyects have appear too, for example, just like there is a tequila route in the state of Guadalajara or a wine route in Baja California there is a Pulque route in the state of Tlaxcala , a bicicle ecotourism pulque route near Teotihuacan (the pyramids), or a guided route in México city that takes you through the historic bars and pulquerias ;)

----------------------------------------- PISCO ----------------------------------------------------------

One could say that tequila/mezcal and mariguana are as culturally important to México as pisco and coca are to Perú. And the equivalent to pulque is, if I´m not mistaken, a maize ferment called chichi.
I would like to ask from people of Perú (and Chile) to tell us more about Pisco (I´ll copy pasta here in the info) . I have drank it and I know a bit about it, but I can´t compare my words to what you guys can tell us about it :)

------------------------------ México - Perú bussiness------------------------------------------

Just in case you were wondering how the meeting went... it went VERY WELL, specially for Perú.

Perú is getting A LOT of investment from México since a few years ago, in 2012 México invested 14,000 mdd (millions of dollars) and is now the 1º investor for Perú. [link]


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Jajajaja Mexico datos locos chan a vuelto XDD