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Deja vu for Friday night
The Mex Files | October 10th 2008
When the first video was filmed, it was just a historical and traditional piece. Alas, it’s come back. The second, may be all too relevant to the situation in the United States right now. <p> <p> “What happened?̶ read more
Fan mail and sodomy
The Mex Files | October 8th 2008
Everybody’s a critic. I received this from my e-mail account at my publisher’s website: What if I want my money back. I may not like your book for all kinds of reasons. America is full of trivia and trash and, well, you know, sodomists. read more
This is scary…
The Mex Files | October 8th 2008
Otto (Inca Kola News) wrote today on the latest statements on the economy by the hapless George W. Bush: So after the enormous nationalization program being undertaken by the Bush administration at the moment, what more evidence do you need for Dubya read more
We’re from the government, and we’re here to help you. Yeah,…
The Mex Files | October 7th 2008
Yeah, of course we have police abuses and strong arming from time to time here in Mexico, but hey… Mexico doesn’t claim to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, either… from VivarLatino: ICE and the media can try and se read more
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
Just in passing
The Mex Files | October 5th 2008
Laura Carlson (CIP Americas Policy Program): … In April 2007, on the eve of the North American Trilateral Summit, Thomas Shannon, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, described the SPP’s purpose with remar read more
Two drips… or peas in a pod
The Mex Files | October 3rd 2008
Anyone who has ever taught a foreign language knows what a trap idioms and expressions can be. While some English expressions (”six of one, a half-dozen of the other”) are a tad tricky for cultural reasons (who counts by dozens outside read more
It was only a matter of time
The Mex Files | October 3rd 2008
Mexican President Felipe Calderón, who has made fighting drug traffickers the centerpiece of his administration, proposed legislation on Thursday that would decriminalize the possession of small quantities of cocaine and other drugs for addicts who read more
Family Values Sunday… 28-September-2008
The Mex Files | September 28th 2008
Family visits In San Diego, families separated by the border still get together for Sunday picnics, but not for long. HTMLLeslie Berestein in the 24-September-2008 San Diego Union: This binational social scene, as it exists now, is unique along the read more
Stratfor, Fox News: “We can’t help it, we’re morons… n…
The Mex Files | September 27th 2008
The Stratfor “Geopolitical Intelligence Report” needs a new name. Peter Zeihan’s 15-September2008 “The Russian Resurgence and the New-Old Front” should make you question the timeliness of Stratfor’s intelligenc read more
Friday Night Video for those without golden parachutes
The Mex Files | September 26th 2008
That’s it for today… gracias. read more
What could possibly go wrong?
The Mex Files | September 26th 2008
The credit crisis in the U.S. is yet another reason to pay attention to Mexican history… Thomas Black for Bloomberg: Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — U.S. legislators, under pressure to vote quickly on a $700 billion rescue fund for the U.S. financ read more
New Mexico Republican’s His-panic Attack
The Mex Files | September 25th 2008
All over the press right now is the outrageous statement by Bernadillo County, New Mexico Republican Party chairman Fernando C de Baca that: The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors, African-Americans came here as slaves. Hispanics conside read more
Texas hold’em…
The Mex Files | September 25th 2008
From Grits For Breakfast comes another sweetheart deal for GEO Group — the rent-a-prison folks. Homeland Security isn’t just deporting improperly documented aliens (including legal ones, and the occasional natural born citizen), but they& read more
What is to be done?
The Mex Files | September 23rd 2008
With the argument that “we cannot allow a failed state on our borders, and ‘shit runs downhill’ President Felipe Calderon was reluctantly expected to join with the leaders of Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia (the so-called “three amigos states read more
A more than fleeting thought
The Mex Files | September 22nd 2008
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva warned on Thursday that the resurrection of a U.S. naval fleet in Latin America may signal that Washington covets huge new oil reserves off Brazil’s coast. The U.S. Navy is ree read more
Be it ever so humble Sunday readings: 21 September 2008
The Mex Files | September 21st 2008
Intimidad Lydia Crafts (Texas Observer) writes on David Redmond’s documentaty on the struggles of a Reynosa couple, Cecy and Camilo, to build the dream shack in the border city: Cecy and Camilo showed the filmmakers a different side of Reynosa read more
Bush-whacked economy
The Mex Files | September 20th 2008
(Dollar bill redesign from portfolio.com via Inca Kola News) Rules seem to be changing all over the place. George W. Bush has become a “socialist.” Today Mr. Bush pronounced “that the historic federal government takeover of mortgage read more
Miffed sheriff takes his boys and goes home
The Mex Files | September 20th 2008
Guadalupe, Arizona is in Maricopa County, Arizona… BUT apparently won’t receive county services: The town of Guadalupe’s contract for police services with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office will end in March, one year earlie read more
“I didn’t do nothin’ and I’ll never do it again…”
The Mex Files | September 19th 2008
If you’re wondering why so many down here (myself included) have a jaundiced view of Plan Merida, and the whole “War on (some) drugs” story, it’s because it’s painfully obvious that the United States is not willing to do read more
The “Cantina Putsch” in Bolivia
The Mex Files | September 18th 2008
I’m not sure whose head was up whose ass at the Washington Post when they published an editorial calling for the elected government to “negotiate” with these yo-yos: A stupid editorial in support of really stupid people. Uh… read more
Mexicans are not Spaniards, nor are Spaniards Mexicans
The Mex Files | September 17th 2008
From the U.S. election news (Americablog.com): … John McCain didn’t appear to know that Spain was in Europe, or that the leader of Spain was named Zapatero. This, after the interviewer told him, and I paraphrase, “Okay let’s s read more
No shit!
The Mex Files | September 17th 2008
Geeze, after being the plot of a never made movie, endless blathering by the right wing , complete fabrications by United States Congressmen (one of my favorites, since I know the sherriff in question, and he still shakes his head over this story) an read more
When the U.S. catches a cold, Mexico catches pneumonia, but when…
The Mex Files | September 17th 2008
It may not be so bad… (Ken Parks, Dow Jones Newswire): Mexico’s banks have no meaningful exposure to U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH), which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday, according to a gove read more
STELLLLLLLAAAAAAA! Stanley Kowalski a Mexican stud?
The Mex Files | September 17th 2008
Stace Medellin, who normally writes about Houston area politics on his Dos Centavos site, has shown an understandable interest in the career of actor Benny Briseño, who “unbuttons his sweaty cotton shirt to reveal tight pectorals and a V-shape read more
All dressed up and nowhere to go?
The Mex Files | September 15th 2008
Anti-immigration groups left with nowhere to go politically? News report from The Real News Network. read more
I don’t like Ike (update)
The Mex Files | September 14th 2008
Galveston appears to have survived, but something strange is going on. The Houston Chronicle — and national wire services — are reporting on 2000 people rescued in Galveston, but that means 18,000 have not been heard from. Ike did no read more
Poor babies… life is unFAIR
The Mex Files | September 14th 2008
(Sombrero tip to Duke at The Sanctuary) FAIR — the Federation for American Immigration Reform — is miffed. … the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), America’s Voice, Center for New Community, and the Fair Immigration read more
Out of the north…
The Mex Files | September 13th 2008
Looks like more still more foreigners are expected to stay: Edmunton Journal (7-September 2008 ): Mexico was named the world’s top retirement destination in an annual look at global retirement trends in International Living Magazine. The magazi read more
Is there still a Galveston?
The Mex Files | September 13th 2008
(Houston Chronicle photo by Johnny Hansen of the memorial to the victims of the 1900 hurricane that killed 8 to 12,000 people out of what was then a population of about 40,000). Galveston was a link between French New Orleans and Spanish Veracruz (fo read more
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