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Among nations, as among neighbors, respect for the rights of others… 27 Aug 2013 | 01:01 pm
¡Viva México! Last Friday, outside the Russian Embassy in Mexico City… By choice — and necessity — México has historically avoided interfering in the domestic affairs of other nations. Although the ...
Why they fight 27 Aug 2013 | 12:36 pm
Without our land, we cease to be a people. Our lands and identities are critical to our lives, our waters, our forests, our culture, our global commons, our territories. For us, the struggle for our t...
Succes de scandale 27 Aug 2013 | 10:07 am
Unlike the U.S. Consumer Protection Agency, which is just part of the Federal Trade Commission, Mexico’s counterpart, Profeco, — in theory — is a much more powerful agency. The acronym stands for Pr...
What’s the point? 27 Aug 2013 | 08:16 am
Porter Corn (Mexico Trucker) … uh… points me to this video. About a year and a half old, but a nice reminder that cultural synthesis and rural folk dances don’t necessarily have some deep sociologica...
Funny numbers and wacky-weed 26 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
Washington Post this morning (Mexican drug cartel activity in U.S. said to be exaggerated in widely cited federal report): In its 2011 report, the center used the phrase “transnational criminal organ...
It happens 22 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
I’m appreciative of the donations that have come in after news that the Inca Kola News — Mex Files summit meeting had to be canceled. I’m more upset about having to cancel my trip to Ecuador and Peru...
The war (profiteers) on the border 19 Aug 2013 | 11:46 am
A terribly misleading heading in the New York Times yesterday on the militarization of the U.S. borderlands as “War on the border”… there is no war, unless its a war on the residents of the United Sta...
Eyes wide open 19 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
We’re a modern country… with state legislators as stupid as anyone else’s. While the competition for stupidest state legislator of the year is usually a close race between representatives from Texas,...
Cry to Heaven 18 Aug 2013 | 01:45 pm
From a closing scene in the 1993 French documentary Latcho Drom (Safe Journey), the story of the Romany (Gypsy) diaspora, from India to Spain, where the Gypsies have become an integral part of the cul...
TIME MAGAZINE’s Ugly Americanism 18 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Fuckin’ idiot! RT: The unethical and legally questionable statement made by TIME magazine’s senior national correspondent has been met with a barrage of criticism. Although Michael Grunwald deleted ...
