The world’s richest man, Carlos Slim, and baseball’s $270million man, Alex Rodriguez, were united this weekend while promoting a new sports complex “in the poor suburb of Nezahualcoyotl.” While most pundits and gossip-wranglers couple the story with Madonna’s coincidental visit to Mexico City — an obvious goldmine of gossip lore — I wonder why no one has mentioned how this new complex might divert scenarios like this by providing children with a venue devoid of hustlers, pimps, drug-addicts and inhumane Narcos. Mexico is rapidly succumbing to a morbid, drug-war laden reality, and something remotely positive could be dealt with a bit more optimism.

Rodriguez, known by fans as “A-Rod,” was invited to inaugurate the sports center by Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim, whose Telmex Foundation sponsored its construction. The site includes two baseball diamonds and 25 soccer fields.

“It’s a pleasure to talk about baseball, to talk about the importance of keeping children off the streets, out of drugs and out of all the bad things that there are in this life,” the New York City-born Rodriguez said in Spanish.

It wasn’t immediately known if Rodriguez and Madonna met while in Mexico City.

I swear the world still cares about you, Mexico.

A-Rod in Mexico City on same weekend as Madonna [AP]
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