Comments on: A pictorial day in the life of a Tijuana millionaire's wife

By: dross1260

dross1260 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lokks like Jersey Shores meets Fountain Hills, AZ

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Why are wealth and privilege in Latin America met with indignation, when the same in the United States are accepted and admired, even expected?”

We fawn over our rich and famous just like you do. The difference in this case is the Hank family are a bunch of drug trafficking murderers who deserve even more indignation than they already receive.

By: sing it, baby

sing it, baby — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is that Kelsey Grammer drinking by the punch bowl?

By: pjk

pjk — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yikes, Latin American aristocracy, with their dark furniture, blond offspring, and weighty surnames. makes me glad I’m middle class and don’t owe anyone anything.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jorge Hank was actually the inspiration for the character of Esteban in Weeds.

What’s really funny is Pilar, played by long-tie actress of goodie-two-shoes telenovella characters Kate del Castillo, actually bears a strong resemblance to Hank’s daughter in the second picture.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

At what point do the kidnappers from the Zetas cartel show up?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hank’s grandfather once said: “un polÃtico pobre es un pobre polÃtico”, “a pennyless politician is a poor politician”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That first picture of the baby bear is disturbing.

By: 4ppleseed

4ppleseed — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Love the photo of the golden girl… ‘I’m eating in the ghetto on a hundred dollar plate’.

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hehe. While the Arcade Fire lyric may be familiar, I can assure you that this child does not happen to be eating in the proverbial ghetto. ;-)

By: fernleon

fernleon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You have less poverty here cause you killed all the Indians… Not protestant ethic. Go to South Africa… You couldnt arrange to exterminate all the Africans, but if you would have it would be just like australia or the US… Us white european spaniard descendants, didn’t kill all the natives, thus we have poverty…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Enjoy your magnificent feast served on golden plates, children. Remember – your wealth ensures generations of poverty for the masses!”

By: Sawyertrice

Sawyertrice — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t actually believe the photo series is very insightful. While some of the images are visually interesting, what is conveyed, at least in these few images, is hardly glamour, insulation and eccentricity.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! They all look like they’re having SO much FUN!! :D

Not.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not sure how you came to this conclusion or what rational thought was used to attain it. However, poverty is no more a function of anthropology as eugenics is a function of science.

Please think before you start making outrageous conclusions about the reasons for poverty in society.

If anything the slavery, murder, and collapse of the native populations allowed for cheap labor and the consolidation of power. Obviously, someone never read their history because there was plenty of slave labor and mass murder of the indigenous throughout all of the americas.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This guy’s description reminds me of the Esteban Reyes character from “Weeds.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyone feel Godfather?

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Why are wealth and privilege in Latin America met with indignation, when the same in the United States are accepted and admired, even expected? The difference is our cultural myth of equality which endures despite the obvious reality of inequality in the United States. There is plenty of income inequality in Mexico, but seemingly less hypocricy about it.

By: anacecitux

anacecitux — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s not about indignation about wealth on Latam countries. When you live in Mexico and you know what kind of piece of shit is Hank, you are automatically pissed. That and the guy has no taste and all.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks, Brian.
You can’t blame the children about the way their father or other family members obtained the money. These pictures aren’t even that sumptuous. A few of them are at a wedding! Of course weddings will look expensive!

By: Sinthea

Sinthea — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If I walked into this gallery I’d have to ask myself if I mistakenly walked into an Olan Mills portrait studio… before walking out.

By: bfarn

bfarn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wait, he married a bear?

By: Daedalus

Daedalus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Why are wealth and privilege in Latin America met with indignation, when the same in the United States are accepted and admired, even expected?”

Protestant Ethic.

Also: less visible poverty over here.

Though it’s not universal. Especially now that bankers and investors are cultural bad guys for the moment. I bet you could get a lot of Tea Party twits on board with burning Wall Street to the fekkin’ ground. I’d pick up a torch, and I’m a screaming liberal.