Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, is in Mexico trying to get support as she works to solve Europe's debt crisis.
International financial officials - like the head of the IMF - have never been popular in Central and South America.
Once they came to demand painful austerity cuts in exchange for loans, but now they come asking for support for a possible bailout of faltering European economies.
Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City.
