fruit of machismo?

i want to understand better what’s going on in mexico. 

i want to understand what causes some mexicans to do whatever it takes to find a better life. 

i read a quote today from mexico’s president felipe calderon saying that there is a culture of “machismo and misogyny” that pervades in mexico…said that in 2006, 49% of all homicides against women were at the hands of their husbands.

the president called these figures “chilling.”  i agree. 

i wonder what the connection is with drugs and alcohol. 

i wonder what the figure is in other places.