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The Mex Files police blotter4 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 day ago: Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke You gotta understand It’s just our bringin’ upke That gets u … more →

Tags: Clueless gringos in Mexico, Mazatlán, policía, provincia, sinaloa

Of Jehovahs' Witnesses and drag queens5 comments

richmx2 wrote 6 days 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 1 week ago: Commodity On-line, via capitalist tool (I mean that in a good way) Inca Kola News: When it comes to … more →

Tags: China, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Economy & Business, Gringolandia, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Mexican History -1524 (Pre-Conquest), Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), NAFTA, Teotihuacán

Delivery girl

richmx2 wrote 1 week ago: A lot of people, myself included, had our first job as teenagers making deliveries.  Bertha Martinez … more →

Tags: Children, Education and educators, health, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Medicine, MIXTEC, Oaxaca, Teenagers, Women

Evidence of more deaths foretold

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Early on in the Calderón Adminstration’s “War on Drugs” the Army was sent into Zap … more →

Tags: Baja California, Bureaucracy, Chihuahua, ciudad de mexico, Colombia, Crime and Punishment, Death Squads, drugs, Evil-doers

Shit, shower and shop2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: Joe Bageant, a self-confessed redneck intellectual, lives in what some describe as the “unreal … more →

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

The Revolution will be twittered1 comment

richmx2 wrote 4 weeks ago: For the last several months, Mexico has been discussing new taxes.  The original proposal from the C … more →

Tags: AMLO, Economy & Business, Felipe Calderon, Francisco I. Madero, internet necesario, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), media, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Política mexicana

¡No mames, güey! 4 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: According to polling firm Consulta Mitofsky, Mexican adults curse an average of 20 times a day, serv … more →

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Spanish/Spanglish

Today we have to correct those things that don’t work in the country

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: (One update at end) … or so said Don Felipe, justifying the dissolution of Luz y Fuero de Cent … more →

Tags: AMLO, Economy & Business, Felipe Calderon, Human Rights, Manifestaciones, Oaxaca, Organized Labor (Sindicatos), pan, Política mexicana

How are we doing?

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: The United Nations 2009 Human Development Report is on-line for those of a wonkish frame of mind. As … more →

Tags: Education and educators, Gringolandia, cuba, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Economy & Business, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), World (outside the Americas), health, Colombia

Our war: as it is, as it could be1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Unlike “pundits” on television in the United States, Mexican “talking heads” … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Education and educators, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, Gringolandia, Gun runners

Help wanted

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I’m not job hunting (although I am looking for a second hand refrigerator), but I happened to … more →

Tags: Economy & Business, Gays, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Mazatlán, provincia, Quinceaneras, sinaloa, Women

Macho men: bullfighters, Norman Mailer, the Village People, and Salvador Novo2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I got bogged down last week, trying to translate a short poem by Salvador Novo.  I starting looking … more →

Tags: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., Bureaucracy, ciudad de mexico, Ernest Hemingway, Gays, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, LAZARO CÁRDENAS, Mexican History 1921+, Mexican writers

In Mexico I felt like a human being

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Although the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista considered himself “mulatto”, the country … more →

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), ciudad de mexico, Human Rights, Juan Alemieda Bosques, Mexican History 1921+

The Heroes of Balderas3 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: The sensationalist stories we’re used to seeing from the United States about people who sudden … more →

Tags: Gringolandia, ciudad de mexico, Crime and Punishment, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), policía, Evil-doers, METRO

One thousand guilty...2 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Judeo-Spanish legal theorist Moses Maimonides… argues [in the 290th "Negative Commandment"] th … more →

Tags: Acteal massacre, Brad Will murder, chiapas, Courts, Crime and Punishment, Death Squads, drugs, Ernesto Zedillo, Evil-doers

Mummy dearist

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Meet “Oqui Ópata”, who doesn’t look all that bad after spending the last 400 or so … more →

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), provincia, Sonora, Indigenous peoples

Separation of Church and Party... to save the Church2 comments

richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: While it’s not surprising that the Catholic Church is worried about its falling “market … more →

Tags: Catholic Church, Política mexicana, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), pan, provincia, Jalisco, Religion, guadalajara, Nayarit

The case of the missing elector

richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Be on the lookout for Félix Rodolfo Rodríguez, the 20 year old Presidente of polling station #872, D … more →

Tags: Política mexicana


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