Reforma from Mexico City (pay-wall) reports some 30,000 evacuated from Vera Cruz following Karl’s drenching rains and wind… It arrived on Friday as a Cat 3 hurricane with 115 mph … [Keep reading >>]
Unlike elections in the United States which the whole world follows with bated breath, Mexico’s election on Sunday took place with pitifully little interest anywhere despite some camera-fetching assassinations. CNN … [Keep reading >>]
One of the surprises of a recent trip to Mexico was to read that the country was high on the list of places involved in human trafficking. I suppose I … [Keep reading >>]
It does occur to me to ask: how many of these American South Westerners, taking advantage of Mexico’s health system, would protest loudly in Tucson or Albuquerque over socialism … [Keep reading >>]
Water worries are world wide: Beijing, Perth, Sydney, Gaza City, Los Angeles. The list goes on and on. Mexico City has long been on it. This week-end … [Keep reading >>]
“Mexico City shut down a main water pipeline under a new conservation program, cutting service to more than 2 million residents Sunday after some reservoirs dropped to their lowest levels … [Keep reading >>]
The English newspaper Bandaras News in Puerto Vallarta has published this written account from Luis Manuel Lopez of Reuters along with a chilling video focused on the devastating flooding in … [Keep reading >>]
Update: I really can’t stand it. Of this massive flooding and dislocation of people in our neighbor to the south there is no news at all. Not even … [Keep reading >>]
Writing in the Houston Chronicle, Brooke Medina explores a dark and personal side of the immigration debate: “I’ll never forget the day when I first realized my husband was, in … [Keep reading >>]
” A shadowy leftist guerrilla group took credit for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six Mexican oil and gas pipelines Monday, rattling financial markets and causing … [Keep reading >>]
A couple of quick notes on oil. Think we’ve got 40 years? Think again.
Declining oil output in Mexico could spark a major fiscal crisis there, former Federal … [Keep reading >>]
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The Southern Poverty Law Center has just released a report titled, Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States.
Federal and federal/private programs have tried since at … [Keep reading >>]
