Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: Do Mexicans get annoyed that Cheech Marin gets all the Mexican character-actor parts in Hollywood movies? This is great for Cheech, but bad for Me...

My wife is from Michoacán state. We’ve bought a home in the small town of her birth. I love everything about the quiet little place. Even her mother is kind to ...

Is it true that most Mexicans are carriers of the swine flu due to the fact they eat a lot of chicharrones, or is it the fact that your women are so piglike? I ...

Dear Readers: As you drinko por Cinco this May 5, use this column with songs that mariachis will actually, gladly play instead of glumly strumming through the u...

Dear Mexican: First of all, please don’t think that I’m a self-loathing Mexican; I was born in the U.S. to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancest...

Dear Mexican: In an earlier column, you mentioned that conservatives can’t have an argument against illegal immigration without it degenerating into a diatribe ...

Dear Mexican: For as long as I can remember, Mexicans were known for doing three things: drinking lots of cerveza, having lots of niños, and saying “¡Ay, caramb...

Dear Mexican: Why are Mexicans so proud of the brutality of their police force? They seem to glamorize it in all their music and telenovelas. —Batons Are Ba...

Dear Readers: In honor of April Fool’s Day, I’m turning over the column this week to those who think America can stop the Reconquista. Following are the winners...

Dear Mexican: Why is it that when I go to the Mexican supermarkets to buy productos femeninas, fully 98 percent of the aisle provided for such things is compose...