LA Times on peso

While the temptation is great to gleefully rub one's hands and look forward to a (relatively) inexpensive Mexican vacation, I feel bad for the locals.

Why would you feel bad for the locals? We pay in pesos. We have not experienced any loss of purchasing power unless we want to buy products sold in dollars. It's the lodging operators who charge in dollars who are crippling us since instead of filling their lodgings with Statesiders looking to take advantage of the exchange rate they continue to sit there mostly unreserved for the upcoming season.