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May 15, 2012
Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately
The Baja California episode of No Reservations begins with a soundtrack of gunshots and sirens peppering news reports of violence in Tijuana. But against this noise we see Anthony Bourdain strolling into town looking unafraid. He knows what you're thinking: "Wait, isn't Tijuana dangerous?" The shor ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Return to Sender
What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?
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September 9, 2010
Juarez's Children: Drugs, Death, and Fear
What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?
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August 26, 2010
Asylum Denied
Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories
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April 29, 2010
A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs
Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories
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April 29, 2010
A Report From Juarez, the Front Line of the War on Drugs
Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories
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April 6, 2010
Sunday's 7.2 Earthquake Named 'Sierra El Mayor;' Mexican President Says Third Death Possible
polyvf via Twipic: http://tweetphoto.com/17203656Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey have come up with a name for Sunday's 7.2 shaker felt throughout the Southwest: The Sierra El Mayor earthquake. It was named for the mountain range near the temblor's epicenter on the Laguna Saluda fault. ... More >>
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March 26, 2010
Mexico Has A Problem With Pot Use -- OUR Pot Use
Oh will the ironies ever cease? Mexico has turned up its nose at the United States' sudden infatuation with medical marijuana -- what with New Jersey and possibly even New York approving the drug for medicinal purposes. The administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon apparently feel ... More >>
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February 5, 2009
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Oh will the ironies ever cease? Mexico has turned up its nose at the United States' sudden infatuation with medical marijuana -- what with New Jersey and possibly even New York approving the drug for medicinal purposes. The administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon apparently feel ... More >>
LA Life
February 5, 2009
Mexicans: Crack-Crazy S.O.B.s and Drunks?
Oh will the ironies ever cease? Mexico has turned up its nose at the United States' sudden infatuation with medical marijuana -- what with New Jersey and possibly even New York approving the drug for medicinal purposes. The administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon apparently feel ... More >>
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December 2, 2008
Braceros Rally Outside Mexican Consulate
They were old men wearing cowboy hats, some leaning on canes, others holding hand-lettered signs. Today they gathered across the street from the Mexican consulate near MacArthur Park to pressure the government of Felipe Calderon to cough up money owed them. Between 1942 and 1964 these men had been p ... More >>
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October 9, 2008
Fraude: Everything Is Under Control
Luis Mandoki's controversial documentary recounts the 2006 Mexican election
Blogs
August 4, 2008
AIDS Conference Take 1: Rejecting Bill Clinton
The AIDS Conference opened with a bang on Monday: An activist take-over of a symposium hosted by a pharmaceutical company (which decided to stop distributing HIV drugs to kids) and a speech by Bill Clinton where I suppose he said some quotable things. On Sunday night the gala opening happened at ... More >>
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July 28, 2008
A stormy 'consultation' on energy reform
More than 800,000 Mexicans in the metropolitan region went to special polling places on Sunday to register their opinion on the energy reform package being pushed by President Felipe Calderon's conservative PAN party. Depending on your source, it was either a rousing civic success or a shameless ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2008
The case of the 38 missing oil workers
It is well known that covering the narco war in Mexico as a journalist is a difficult and in some cases deadly profession. (Look no further than the threats that trailed Jesus Blancornelas throughout his life.) This sobering reality hung over a panel here on Saturday organized by the New York-base ... More >>
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June 3, 2008
Confronting food shortages in Mexico
Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced an ambitious plan last week to confront rising food costs in Mexico and to prevent the type of shortages and inflation surges that threaten the stability of developing countries in other parts of the world. In Mexico, already hit hard by the rising cost ... More >>
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April 20, 2008
AMLO and the battle over Mexico's oil
Tall, striking, and as piercingly eloquent as ever when addressing throngs of dedicated supporters, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is back at the top of a massive street-level social movement in Mexico. And this time it's not over votes. It's over Mexico's oil. The leftist-populist former mayor of ... More >>
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March 6, 2008
Isis meets Quetzalcoatl
Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the central theme behind a new temporary exhibit at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. It is one of those "mega-shows" that have been sorta tre ... More >>
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August 17, 2006
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the central theme behind a new temporary exhibit at Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. It is one of those "mega-shows" that have been sorta tre ... More >>
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August 17, 2006
The Simulated Republic
Alleged electoral fraud, the recount and a hail storm
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July 20, 2006
Sticking It to El Hombre
L�pez Obrador won�t back down
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July 13, 2006
Head Games
Zizou�s noggin and Mexico�s recount
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July 13, 2006
People Are Pissed
Channeling the anger of Mexico�s oppressed
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July 6, 2006
Overtime in Mexico
Just another stalled election, not the surging leftist revolution some U.S. observers wish to see
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June 29, 2006
The Mexico Cup
Finally a brutal, expensive and downright American campaign is over

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