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Haunting city hall
Some local politicians just never have accepted term limits! Mexico City’s historic council chambers, el Salón de Cabildos, has a long history and more than a few ghosts. A fun factoid. When Pop… more →
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Haunting city hall
richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Some local politicians just never have accepted term limits! Mexico City’s historic council ch … more →
La tumba abandonada
richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Villa’s life is largely a mystery and so is his death. He had made his hacienda a model farm along t … more →
Deliver us evil
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: On Holy Saturday (Sábado de Gloria), Mexicans remember that ultimate sell-out, snitch and all round … more →
Onward Christian Soldiers...
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: With more than some justification, the Santa Muerte faithful picketed outside the Metropolitan Cathe … more →
Sunday paseo
richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: I spent most of the past week (when I wasn’t holed up with the aftereffects of minor dehydrati … more →
Tuqui tuqui tuqui Christmas video
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richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: The Scruffy Little Burro has been a hit on the Latin American kiddy Christmas Pageant circuit for th … more →
Chupacabra! Hey, this is the me X-FILES, right?
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Looks more like a slightly-overweight Xoloitzcuintli to me. I get kind of a kick out of people say … more →
Fight for the right to party!
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: (Dissident teachers at the start of the Alternative Guelaguetza,in Oaxaca. Notimex photo by Hugo Alb … more →
Doing time ... Texas and Mexico
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Grits for Breakfast (see the comment below) corrects my data. I don’t have the data on the num … more →
Used wife, one owner...
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: I still do not “get” the people who defend “usos y costumbres” as a progress … more →
What's in a name?
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: There was a short article in today’s Noroeste on a campaign by the local Registro Civil to rem … more →
Wanted: Dead or... dead
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: April 16 is San Toribio day, according to the calander hanging in the very anti-clerical household w … more →
Has Elba Esther been in Campeche?
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Francisco Ynurreta, in today’s El Grafico: CAMPECHE, Camp.— Chupacabras have reappeared in the … more →
La Bamba redux (Friday night video)
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: If I’d only spelled Adolfo Ruíz Cortines wrong one time, I’d have been able to claim it … more →
The Lady Killer
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Juana Barraza Samperio is unique in the annals of crime. Serial killers are very rare in Latin Ameri … more →
Somebody's watching me...
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Another reason to run for the border: Privacy International, a UK privacy group, and the U.S.-based … more →
So, what's your sign?
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Boy, this is fun… Everything you ever wanted to know about Aztec calendars… and even a c … more →
Hey kids... let's put on a show!
richmx2 wrote 2 years ago: Having once had a bit part in a Telenovela (actually, I was scenery… playing one of several fo … more →
Happy Day of the Dead
richmx2 wrote 2 years ago: Photo of Santa Muerte (and compa) by David AgrenThe Low Rent Correspondent”) Doesn’t she … more →
