"It's quite remarkable to me that people are assuming that somehow we're at a new stage in political or institutional or economic development in Mexico, " said JohnAckerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting scholar at American University in Washington.
From the banks, the glitterati include Barclays chief Bob Diamond, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackerman, Morgan Stanley Chairman John Mack, Lloyds chief Eric Daniels, Brady Dougan of Credit Suisse and HSBC's Stuart Gulliver.