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What’s wrong with Jose Seis-chelas?
The Mex Files | October 7th 2008
One of the deciding factors in United States Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson’s support of the 1913 coup against Francisco Madero — and the anarchic violence that resulted from that coup — was the administrative change in the United Sta read more
Ya think?
The Mex Files | October 4th 2008
(photos: El Universal Television) Nacha Cattan, in The (Mexico City) News: Mexico City’s human rights commissioner expressed concern Friday that some of the 23 marchers arrested in Thursday’s rally commemorating the Oct. 2, 1968, Tlatelol read more
Shock therapy
The Mex Files | September 12th 2008
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change. (Milton Friedman). Scott Henson’s Texas justice/penology blog, “Grits For Breakfast” wrote yesterday about a book called Governing Though Crime. Henson, and Jonathan Simon read more
Render unto Caesar…
The Mex Files | August 29th 2008
[Dyslexics Untie! Yup, I'd spelled Caesar wrong... thanks, Otto] Mexico’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a law allowing abortion in the capital, handing a victory to leftist city lawmakers over conservative President Felipe Calderon’s go read more
Supreme Court, abortion… sound familiar?
The Mex Files | August 25th 2008
Just as in the United States, every time an abortion case comes before the Supreme Court, the pundits and experts all start reading the tea leaves over what the justices might do. This latest case seeks to roll back last year’s changes in t read more
Seventy-five points to consider
The Mex Files | August 25th 2008
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 for all. The seventy-five point document is a compro read more
She’s got legs…
The Mex Files | August 19th 2008
Photo: EFE Several dozen mini-skirted women picked the Metropolitan Cathedral today (17 August), after being escorted out of mid-morning Mass. The mini-faldistas were protesting recent Church recommendations that to prevent violence against women, read more
Olympic Gold and Silver for Mexico!
The Mex Files | August 17th 2008
Just not these Olympics… At the VII International Geography Olympiad, held last week in Cathage Tunisia, Francisco Javier Quezada Figueroa, de Guerrero earned a gold medal, and Emanuel Johansen Campos, of Morelos, took the silver. The 16 to read more
Pack to school special
The Mex Files | August 16th 2008
(Photo: El Noroeste) It’s that time of year again. School starts next week, and there are stories in the media this time of year about charities providing school supplies and backpacks to poor kids. Education is free and compulsory (and, in read more
“The Shadow” knows
The Mex Files | August 9th 2008
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 reference list of Immigration websites. He is an Ameri read more
Sex workers unite… we have nothing to lose (World AIDS Conferen…
The Mex Files | August 5th 2008
Daniel Hernandez, Intersections: “A global AIDS conference that opens in Mexico City on Sunday is meant for people infected with HIV, but transsexual sex worker Elma Delea cannot get inside,” begins this Reuters dispatch from the streets read more
Plaguarize, let no one else’s work evade your eyes…
The Mex Files | July 22nd 2008
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 read more
Torture 101
The Mex Files | July 1st 2008
I don’t recommend watching this video, but this is what the wire service I’m not using is reporting as evidence of continual corruption of the Mexican police. What has been edited out (probably not the reporters’ — E. Eduard read more
Zapatistas… what have they done lately?
The Mex Files | January 11th 2008
Immanuel Wallerstein, the anti-globalist academic historian and sociologist, presumably is pro-Zapatista, though even he is hard pressed to find any anything they’ve ever accomplished.Wallerstein (and his publisher) would prefer one not use exc read more
Cactus bandits v Mexican villagers!
The Mex Files | January 6th 2008
No, really… Roberto Aguilar reports in today’s El Universal (my translation): JAUMAVE, Tamaulipas.— Several varieties of cacti, which are only found in the semi-desert high plains of Tamaulipas are being stolen by foreigners. In coun read more
A fan notes
The Mex Files | January 6th 2008
Students new to the Spanish language are always amused to discover that the word for “fan” — as in the guy who buys the tee-shirt — is fánatico. In English, after all, we reserve “fanatic” for wild-eyed crazies & read more
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