AS a matter of fact, we went to the "Zocolo" in downtown MC & went into the cathedral that is sinking. Amazinging beautiful architecture. My son's spanish teacher said that the city was built on top of a lake that had dried up & the ground was not able to support it. You have to go down ramps because the cathedral is sinking. There was a marker in the center of the building to show how much it has shifted....we will post pics later. It would be a shame for those buildings to be destroyed because they are incredible.
That was also the part of town that really opened the kids' eyes (and mine) to other parts of the world. They had never seen beggers like that, with little kids & babies sitting on the sidewalks asking for $. We held on to all the kids tightly but never felt threatened. Our kids are really so fortunate to live the way they do, safely & with all their needs met & exceeded.