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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 Repub
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What part of legal don’t they understand?
Via American Wetback comes this chart from Reason magazine on the “ease” of obtaining legal residency in the Untied States. The original PDF is here....
Cuban heels…
Could the great Merida head-chopping story get any more twisted? After reports in the AP that the killers must have been engaging in some sort of kinky religious ritual (based on one cops’ spe...
“A profound shudder”
Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío wrote for The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: “I ...
What’s in it for Mexico?
Felipe Calderon, interviewed on Radio Fórmula, while managing not to endorse either candidate for president of the United States seems to prefer McCain. He says that while he thinks Obama offers ...
The fleet’s in (the back yard)
The United States Navy’s Fourth Fleet was established in 1943 to patrol the South Atlantic and guard against U-boat attacks during the Second World War. Its mission became redundant after the ...
Assume the position
United States foreign policy has always been motivated by a missionary mentality. But it’s time to vary the missionary position. James McEnteer, “Death by Paranoia“ One assumes Maj. Gr...
Mississippi spurning…
How much I can write from Mexico on an huge immigration raid (with some extremely troubling features) is an open question. I realize most of the immigration and immigrant rights people are partial t...
Rememberances of things past
Joseph Nevins, in New American Media on the loss of simple decency in our dialogue about the border. [I]n Imperial Beach, Calif. on Aug. 18, 1971 to inaugurate a state park…the First Lady promi...
Maybe the terrorists won?
I always thought the way to fight terrorism was to refuse to be terrified. And that the point of terrorism was to disrupt commerce and ordinary life enough to let a repressive regime take control. F...
Migra raid in Mississippi — interesting Republican connection?
(21:00 — The New York Times has their story posted, saying “at least 350 workers” said to be in the country illegally were detained. Barbara Gonzalez, the ICE spokeswoman, said doz...
Seventy-five points to consider
The Acuerdo Nacional por la Seguridad, la Justicia y la Legalidad isn’t a bad document, but it is not — by itself — going to create a Perfect Union… with liberty and justice fo...
Your loss is our gain…
… or so argues Jay Bildstein in The (Mexico City) News: It is said that 70 percent of the U.S. economy is consumer based. Rampant consumerism is a way of life in the United States. A powerful ad...
Is them us, or us them?
The aptly-named “LoneWacko” rides again: Speaking at a high school in New Mexico, Barack Obama was asked about immigration and, according to this liveblog of the event, said: “We are...
Anchor (babies) away
I’m almost willing to bet there are going to be “MEXICAN POLICE INVADE LAREDO” stories in your favorite right-wing wingnut sources about this. An American citizen went into labor whi...
They’ll get it when it’s pried from my cold dead … uh…
Penis enlargers and constricting rings to maintain erections can be seized at U.S. borders, U.S. regulators said Thursday, citing inadequate safety labels. First they came for the porn on our computer...
Iowa: the nightmare state
When I originally wrote this for a later posting — the one you’re reading now — I didn’t know about the overwhelming task taken on by Saint Bridget’s Catholic Church (wit...
Race, la Raza and Spiro T. Agnew
Latinamericanistas who post in English invested a lot of bandwidth this last week in discussing Spanish racism. By total coincidence, also last week …the United States Census Bureau has just r...
Unintended consequences
According to Antonio Payan, a political science professor at the University of Texas in El Paso, 3000 mostly middle-class families have moved from Juarez to El Paso over the last year. Payan is indi...
How green was our border…
The Border Governor’s Conference (The 10 border states - Arizona, Baja California, California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, New Mexico, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Texas - together exercise an e...
Dude, where’s my border?
Lynn Brezosky, San Antonio Express-News, via South Texas Chisme . GRANJENO — Perhaps it was the shade-giving mesquite and the storied ebony tree that caused border-fence surveyors to apparently m...
No reason to be in your own country?
A U.S. Border Patrol agent in San Ysidrio, California apparently shot a Mexican national today, during a rock-throwing incident. The shooting victim probably was throwing rocks, but whether he deser...
Chupacabra! Hey, this is the me X-FILES, right?
Looks more like a slightly-overweight Xoloitzcuintli to me. I get kind of a kick out of people saying this is an “urban legend”. Cuero Texas might have legends… but they ain...
Don’t drink the water, and don’t eat the food?
Maybe the Aztecs shouldn’t have given up cannibalism. Today’s border absurdity from the Houston Chronicle: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans today to announce an unusual ...
Becoming a non-person in Texas
A few years ago, a couple of midwives in south Texas cofessed up that they forged about 15,000 birth certificates. Homeland Security, fearing someone might slip through the cracks (God Forbid!) is d...
I’d never considered this…
In Mexico same-sex marriage is probably legal. I say probably, because so far only one state explicitly allows same-sex marriage (Coahuila), but a marriage in one state is recognized in throughout t...
“The Shadow” knows
A slight misunderstanding on my part (one of his readers was referencing a comment on one of my posts) put me in touch with “the shadow”, and I’ve already added his site to my refere...
“Sketchy” border incident
Four Mexican army soldiers entered southern Arizona and pointed their rifles at a U.S. Border Patrol agent early this week, the Border Patrol said. The incident Sunday was the Mexican military’s...
WWJVF? (Who would Jesus vote for?)
The Democratic Party “virtual candidate” (as he is called in the Mexican press) might be visiting Mexico City around Independence Day (16 September). plot. With his opponent (the Repub...
Death in Texas
Second update: The Supremes did not grant the say, and Medellin was executed at 21:57 Houston Time (about an hour after I wrote the “update” below). UPDATE: as of an hour ago (I’m...
Find the illegal alien…
Vlasil and Maria emigrated to the United States with their baby son, and changed their names– and their son’s name — from their native language to something more understandable in En...