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Mary Anastasia O'Grady: Making enemies wherever she goes3 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 days ago: The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady is probably the only writer I’ll … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Bolivia, Crack-pots, El Salvador, Mary Anastasio O'Grady, media, Right Wing Idiots

Plan Merida: lose-lose for U.S. and Mexico1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 days ago: Mexico is the United States’ closest Latin American neighbor and yet most U.S. citizens receiv … more →

Tags: 2006 Elections, Barack Obama, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, Human Rights, Legal System

Shocked I tell you...

richmx2 wrote 5 days ago: Really, why is anyone surprised that the U.S. Democratic Party is any more reactionary than the Repu … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Honduras, Human Rights

A Rumor of War

richmx2 wrote 6 days ago: Philip Caputo has been writing about war and the corruption of war since his Vietnam memoir, A Rumor … more →

Tags: 2006 Elections, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Barack Obama, Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Chihuahua, ciudad de mexico, Colombia, Crime and Punishment

Southern Exposure1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: The Woodrow Wilson Institute for International Scholars Mexico site picked up an article from El Uni … more →

Tags: 2006 Elections, Agriculture, Agustín Carstens, Alternative Presidency, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), AMLO, Bolivia, Brazil, Crime and Punishment

A Modest Proposal on immigration1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: Great speech! “Robert Erickson” was introduced to a 14 November Minnesota Tea Party Agai … more →

Tags: Border Issues, Humor, Indigenous peoples, Nativist groups, Right Wing Idiots

Of Jehovahs' Witnesses and drag queens5 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: I’m still moving into my new house  and already the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been by … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, cuba, Dominican Republic, Evil-doers, Gays

We're still the one...2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Commodity On-line, via capitalist tool (I mean that in a good way) Inca Kola News: When it comes to … more →

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Real Mexico, Economy & Business, China, Trade agreements and issues, NAFTA, Teotihuacán, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Mexican History -1524 (Pre-Conquest)

Friday night video: Johnny Cash, Richard Nixon and indigenous rights1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President Richard Nixon in the White House’s B … more →

Tags: Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Johnny Cash, Music, Music in English, Richard Nixon

I won't have Lou Dobbs to kick around anymore1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Oh well. I’ve mentioned the guy a total of 23 times (24 counting this one) over the  lifespan … more →

Tags: Agriculture, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Border Issues, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Economy & Business, Emigrant labor/remittances, Informal economy, Lou Dobbs, media

Diplomacy of deceit4 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: A short postscript added 12-November-2009 Laura Carlsen, in today’s Americas: MexicoBlog write … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Woodrow Wilson, Evil-doers, Homeland Security!, Barack Obama, William Jennings Bryan, Haiti, Honduras

Sunday readings: spare change 2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Burro Hall commemorates an important date in the history of tourism: November 8, 1519: Aztec ruler M … more →

Tags: Mexican History 1524-1575 (Spanish Conquest), Hernan Cortés, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Tourism, Haiti, Moctezoma II, Malinche, Honduras, money-laundering

Progress not perfection: coups and resistance

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Laura Carlsen — if not the best informed, then certainly in the top five, of well-informed for … more →

Tags: Jimmy Carter, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Human Rights, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Francisco I. Madero, Bolivia, Honduras, Ronald Reagan

Shit, shower and shop2 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Joe Bageant, a self-confessed redneck intellectual, lives in what some describe as the “unreal … more →

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Real Mexico, Economy & Business, provincia, Jalisco, Informal economy, Non-Mexican writers/artists on Mexico, Gringo ghettos

Honduras and the fat ladies

richmx2 wrote 4 weeks ago: (Updated at 8:30 PM with reference to “The Nation”) Throughout the Honduran crisis the m … more →

Tags: Economy & Business, Human Rights, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), military, Canada, Mining, Honduras

Co-incidence?

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I really don’t care much about U.S. television (I normally check on-line sources, and if I wan … more →

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Economy & Business, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), media, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Lou Dobbs, multinationals

BIG Sunday Readings

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Big  ego For the second or third time I can remember, there are plans to re-create the Mexican feder … more →

Tags: Catholic Church, policía, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Religion, Papa Juan Pablo II, Morditas and bribery, Chile, Bureaucracy, Kitsch

Fight fiercely, Kyle, fight...

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I don’t know when Kyle de Beausset finds the time to actually go to classes up there in Cambri … more →

Tags: Education and educators, Human Rights, Right Wing Idiots, Indocumentados, Music, Minutemen, media, Bill O'Reilly, Nativist groups

A forgotten hero: Charles Young3 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: In editing the (now very far behind) daybook of the Mexican Revolution (I’m still not happy wi … more →

Tags: Canada, Carrizal (Battle of), Charles Young, Crack-pots, John J. Pershing, Mexican Army, military, Punitive Expedition of 1916, Race in the United States


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