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Up the Irish
Michael Hogan for Latino Rebels: For most Mexicans, solidarity with the Irish is part of a long tradition and they remembered the help they received from the Irish and their friendship. In the words o… more →
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Up the Irish
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wrote 2 months ago: Michael Hogan for Latino Rebels: For most Mexicans, solidarity with the Irish is part of a long trad … more →
Gum control...
wrote 5 months ago: One of those Mexican gifts to world agriculture that has returned as processed goods and a bane to t … more →
How about Anáhuac?
wrote 6 months ago: What a silly man… The country’s formal name is the United Mexican States, but few people … more →
Coming Home
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wrote 6 months ago: Sinaloans may like to brag about having the most beautiful women in Mexico, but one of the most famo … more →
The Halls of Montezuma...
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wrote 8 months ago: Today is the 165th anniversary of the Battle of Chapultepec. The U.S. victory over the 832 men and b … more →
Oh, Pioneers!
wrote 10 months ago: The media wasn’t necessarily more “fair and balanced” in the good old days, but th … more →
At least he left a tip
wrote 11 months ago: How Mexico dealt with unwanted foreigners trying to run things down here back in the good old days. … more →
Adios, Mama Carlota
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wrote 11 months ago: More evidence that history repeats itself, if only as metaphor. Tropical Storm Carlota weakened into … more →
Cinco de Mayo: All the news that's fit to cut-n-paste
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wrote 1 year ago: Normally I wouldn’t steal an entire articles from a newspaper, but I’ll make an exceptio … more →
I sold my soul to the company store...
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wrote 1 year ago: Boy, you don’t see one of these very often any more… …thankfully. Or do you? It … more →
Plus ça change
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wrote 1 year ago: Napoléon III has always gone gone in history as a devious sleazoid, but you have to give him credit … more →
General Santa Ana's super-congress
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wrote 1 year ago: From what I’m reading, the U.S. government is creating a fourth branch of government… a … more →
Tacos, narcos and history with a capital H
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wrote 1 year ago: Like any self-taught historians (and maybe those who went to Famous Historians School too), one is a … more →
Chug-chug-chug-chug! Whoooo-woooo!
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wrote 2 years ago: CHEPE, the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacific was — and still is — one of the engineering marvels of … more →
He'll have to go
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wrote 2 years ago: As Juanita Cortez pointed out in her commentary on my very short piece on U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pas … more →
Not much else to say
wrote 2 years ago: Perhaps, though ignorance, I might have committed acts deserving of censure during my long career of … more →
8,841 but who's counting?
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wrote 2 years ago: This is one of those studies, that you really need to stick with. From Milenio (my translation): As … more →
Obvious?
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wrote 2 years ago: Wayne Slater (Dallas Morning News) catches what if it wasn’t a veiled threat — would be amusi … more →
Just a spark
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wrote 2 years ago: Mary Beth Sheridan’s “Military broadens U.S. push to help Mexico battle drug cartels … more →
