Blogs about: Mexican History 1921
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A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo has been writing about war and the corruption of war since his Vietnam memoir, A Rumor of War, first appeared in 1977. As a Chicago Tribune reporter, that includes the generally bloodle… more →
The Mex Files
A Rumor of War
richmx2 wrote 5 days ago: Philip Caputo has been writing about war and the corruption of war since his Vietnam memoir, A Rumor … more →
¡Oy, carrumba! Venta Prieta
richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: While there has been a small movement among the “crypto-Jews” — the descendants of … more →
Southern Exposure
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richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: The Woodrow Wilson Institute for International Scholars Mexico site picked up an article from El Uni … more →
Banamex sale back on?
richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Jornada (my translation): The Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) could force the U.S. bank Citigroup to … more →
2 de Octubre...
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richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: … the United States insists on providing “assistance” to Mexico to deal with a so- … more →
Looking past each other in the drug war
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richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I have tried,with varying success, to understand Mexico and Mexican politics and culture, for years, … more →
Macho men: bullfighters, Norman Mailer, the Village People, and Salvador Novo
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: I got bogged down last week, trying to translate a short poem by Salvador Novo. I starting looking … more →
In Mexico I felt like a human being
richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Although the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista considered himself “mulatto”, the country … more →
19 de Septembre de 1985
richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: The actual number of deaths from the 1985 earthquake can never be determined. Estimates range from t … more →
Norman Borlaug, D.E.P. (25 de marzo de 1914 - 12 de septiembre de 2009)
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: To my knowledge, only two streets in the entire Republic of Mexico have ever been named for U.S. cit … more →
Women of the revolution
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Women served as not only camp followers, but as soldiers and officers in the Mexican Revolution, I s … more →
Out of sight, out of mind?
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: PatrickCorcoran, at Ganchoblog, has been commenting on the ¨disappearance” of Felipe Calderón … more →
Calderon's "Enemies List"
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richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: I made a few small revisions from the original post, to clear up an inadvertent slur. There are U.S … more →
One thousand guilty...
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richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Judeo-Spanish legal theorist Moses Maimonides… argues [in the 290th "Negative Commandment"] th … more →
Mass arrest
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richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Big time meth distributor Miguel Angel Beraza Villa, aka “La Troca,” along with 33 of hi … 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 →
Honduras: the Venezuelan connection and Richard Nixon
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richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Despite continued resistance (nearly all major highways are blocked), the coup has continued to hold … more →
READ THIS!!
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richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Where there are unresolved political and economic disputes, there will be violence. One would hope d … more →
