Thanks for some great comments on my original post. I was NOT attempting to compare AC with Mexico, merely stating a fact, that Mexico is way cheaper for food and drink than AC. The fact that Sams Club is full of Belizians only goes to prove this.

If money is of no issue to you (which seems to be the common consenus on this forum) then who cares about paying way over the odds? Who cares if 1 company have a total monopoly on beer, soft drinks, drinking water and shrimp? And who cares if the corrupt Belizian government have the monopoly on phone and internet usage, and choose to continue where Lord Ashcroft left off. Who cares about ludicrous import taxes or even complete bans on Mexican beer? Sounds more like communism to me, total and utter control in the hands of a few.

As the saying goes "Power Corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". In the end, without competition, prices go through the roof, and everyone has to just accept it.