Must have been the jalapeño....

Geeze.  PAN always sells itself on being the party of "gente decente" — the good and decent folk.  Just like the Republicans Pilar Ortega, a PAN federal deputy from Guanajuanto, has been taking (at Mexican government expense) a graduate course in planning at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.   Ortega's student project, dealing with [...]...

Having spent some time as an "illegal alien" in Mexico, I was always bemused by the right-wing dolts who said "well, what would happen to me if I went to Mexico and…"  They were always disappointed that the answer was "not a hell of a lot." Of course, the smarter of the right wingers (er… the [...]...

(Dissident teachers at the start of the Alternative Guelaguetza,in Oaxaca. Notimex photo by Hugo Alberto Velasco, printed in The News) It's that time again.  The annual running of the protesters in Oaxaca always cumulates in the now traditional duelling traditional Guelaguetzas.  What had been since the 17th century a religious fiesta and market was always [...]...

Ben Rushing sent me a link to an article by food critic Raymond Solokov (19-July 2008, Wall Street Journal) and asks if the candidates might be "pandering" to voters in their food choices.  McCain seems to favor "Tex-Mex" and Obama the " alta cocina Mexican restaurant Topolobampo". But is it "pandering" I donno.  McCain's Tex-Mex choices [...]...