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The Mex Files
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¡COMO MEXICO NO HAY DOS! Written mostly from Mexico, the city that never takes a siesta, where mastked transvestite wrestlers, and machete-wielding naked farmers are as much a part of the "Real Mexico" as any thing else in the Republic. Mexican art, history, culture, politics, economics, news, some travel and the general weirdness that usually comes blowing in from the north.
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In passing…
Still under the weather, but I tend to think it’s because I haven’t been eating my jalepenos: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it found a jalapeno pepper contaminated with the strain of salmonella that has sickened mor...
Taking a day or two off…
Must have been the jalapeño....
Plaguarize, let no one else’s work evade your eyes…
Geeze. PAN always sells itself on being the party of “gente decente” — the good and decent folk. Just like the Republicans Pilar Ortega, a PAN federal deputy from Guanajuanto, has been taking (at Mexican government expense) a gr...
Another excuse out the window…
Having spent some time as an “illegal alien” in Mexico, I was always bemused by the right-wing dolts who said “well, what would happen to me if I went to Mexico and…” They were always disappointed that the answer was &...
Fight for the right to party!
(Dissident teachers at the start of the Alternative Guelaguetza,in Oaxaca. Notimex photo by Hugo Alberto Velasco, printed in The News) It’s that time again. The annual running of the protesters in Oaxaca always cumulates in the now tradition...
