While the rest of the city darts around in sharp suits, with a takeaway coffee in one hand and an iPhone in the other, old men sit on wooden stools at the entrance to their hundred-year-old hutong bungalows, drinking beer, playing chess and chewing the fat.
This showed Gustavo Ponce, Mexico City's finance secretary, in the pose of a carefree plutocrat, chewing on a fat cigar whilst gambling thousands of dollars at the blackjack tables.