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Virgin travel
A new mosaic, depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe, was installed at St. Christopher’s Church on 12 December. This would be unremarkable, if St. Christopher’s was somewhere like Los Angeles … more →
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Virgin travel
richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: A new mosaic, depicting the Virgin of Guadalupe, was installed at St. Christopher’s Church on … more →
¡Oy, carrumba! Venta Prieta
richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: While there has been a small movement among the “crypto-Jews” — the descendants of … more →
Cocolitzi to Swine Flu
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: When the history of the “Mexican Flu” (we’ll probably be stuck with that name) is … more →
Marx, Smith, Pirates and Dracula: the Mexican system
richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: Persons who who do not have a mortal lifespan, are not subject to the same moral code as you and I, … 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 →
Slouching towards Chiapas
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: I spent one night in Guanajuato (which, despite what norteños and Spanish teachers tell you, is pron … more →
Orozco's horse
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: I spent a good part of this afternoon at the Instituo Cultural Cabañas, like so many of the great cu … more →
For family planning Mexico's the one to watch
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Although the Philipines is better known as a former colonial possession of the United States, cultur … more →
Mazatlan's first tourists
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: I had an odd incident last week, when I stopped at one of my favored downtown cafes to read “J … more →
Fan mail and sodomy
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Everybody’s a critic. I received this from my e-mail account at my publisher’s website: … more →
Changing with the times
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: This probably only affects a small number of individuals, but just making this legal change is more … more →
Race, la Raza and Spiro T. Agnew
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Latinamericanistas who post in English invested a lot of bandwidth this last week in discussing Span … more →
Mexico's first Australian tourist
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Not that I’ve been paid yet… or will earn very much, but my book has gone off to the pub … more →
The spin doesn't stop here: Juan Camilo Mouriño
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Felipe Calderón’s nomination of Juan Camilo Mouriño as Secretarío de Gobernacion, did more to restor … more →
Shit happens...
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: It’s time for the annual reaming out of the city’s storm sewers, which will clear an est … 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 →
Another one bites the dust
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: In case anyone is keeping score, since George W. Bush was “elected” in 2000, Argentina, … more →
Girls gone wild
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richmx2 wrote 2 years ago: MEXICO CITY, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Mexican police have captured Sandra Avila, known as the … more →
A few stray threads in la raza cosmica
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richmx2 wrote 2 years ago: Sean-Paul Kelle, who normally writes on economics for The Agonist, is in Taxco looking up his Anglo- … more →
