Street performers from neighboring Michoacán state travel to Guadalajara on weekends, hoping to earn a few pesos in the city's main square. There is no work at home, and worse still, increasing lawlessness and civil disorder. At least four drug cartels are fighting for control of Michoacán, local police have disappeared in many communities and have been replaced by citizen militias (some armed by cartel bosses, according to the government), and as if all that were not enough, thousands of school teachers remain on strike, demanding higher pay and the revocation of modern educational reforms which Mexico's congress approved in December. The itinerant entertainers earned but a few dollars from passersby this Sunday evening, far less than their lodging, food and transportation costs.
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