I found this very interesting. The people I know who are from Mexico make their own tortilla's and they are the best you will ever have in your life. Why aren't people in Mexico making their own tortilla's? LOL I mean really....
I wonder if by all the protesting they are doing here and getting what they want they think it works for everything?
Tens of thousands of people have marched through Mexico City in a protest against the rising price of tortillas.
The price of the flat corn bread, the main source of calories for many poor Mexicans, recently rose by over 400%.
President Felipe Calderon has said the government will clamp down on hoarding and speculation to ease the problem.
But some blame the rise on demand for corn to make environmentally-friendly biofuels in the United States.
The BBC's Duncan Kennedy in Mexico City says the protest was noisy, passionate and angry.
And earlier this month he signed a pact with a number of business groups that they would cap the price of tortillas at 8.5 pesos (77 US cents) per kilogram, but many have chosen to ignore the agreement, which is not legally binding.
Under the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico used to get cheap corn imports from the US, but Mexico's Economy Minister Eduardo Sojo has said that with more US corn being diverted into ethanol production, supply is dwindling.
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