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¡Oy, carrumba! Venta Prieta
While there has been a small movement among the “crypto-Jews” — the descendants of the conversos who made up a large portion of the early Spanish emigration to the New World — … more →
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¡Oy, carrumba! Venta Prieta
richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: While there has been a small movement among the “crypto-Jews” — the descendants of … more →
¡Soy Capitán!
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richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: “Opposition research” – reading some of the right wing websites from the U.S. … more →
They fly through the air, with the greatest of ease
richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: The traditional Totonac Voladores ritual has been recognized by the United Nation Educational, Scien … more →
Obama ≈ Chavez ?
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is bas … more →
13 September 1847
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: 13 September 1847 saw not just the fall of Mexico City to the U.S. invasion, but also the execution … more →
Remember the Alamo? Some of us DO!
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: This is the second (and I hope) last time I comment on the — until recently unknown to me … more →
Celebrity endorsement -- 1909
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richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Porfirio Diaz on the wonders of high-tech. Notice that Don Porfirio, who was born in 1830 in rural O … more →
Fuero militar
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richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: I had to gloss over a lot of Mexican history when I wrote “Gods, Gachupines and Gringos“ … more →
Woops... missed an important date
richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Not Bastille Day, but the one Burro Hall caught: It’s hard to think of another country that wa … more →
Then and now... selling Mexico
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richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: If you consider moving to Mexico, hoping that a new country will improve your financial situation, i … more →
What's Hugo gotta do, gotta do... with the flu?
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: I’ve been meaning to write on the effect the flu will have on Mexican elections, but I hadn … more →
I'm just a poor boy, from a poor family...
richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: The Bolivian weirdness puts to shame anything that’s ever happened in Mexico. The closest par … more →
Deliver us from evil, but not the Sinaola Cartel?
richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: I honestly don’t know what to make of this situation. Even in the “reliably leftist … more →
Bolivia: Follow the (Masonic? U.S.?) money
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: The coup attempt (or thwarted terrorist attack) in Bolivia is veering from something scripted by Rob … more →
Texas -- just say "oui"
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: Stace Medellín (Dos Centavos) quotes his historically challenged (and seditious) Governor as saying … more →
Marx, Smith, Pirates and Dracula: the Mexican system
richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: Persons who who do not have a mortal lifespan, are not subject to the same moral code as you and I, … more →
Smarter than you knew
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richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: Photo copyright © 2001 Jean K. Rosales and Michael R. Jobe Today is Benito Juarez’ 203rd birth … more →
Blackhawks down and talking trash
richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: With the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations asking “dude, where’s th … more →
Yucatan ... another Mexico
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richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: The last leg of my “gringo ghetto blaster tour” was to the Yucatan. As Jim Fields, of Y … more →
