A top member of a breakaway Mormon sect was dragged from his home by marauders and killed early Tuesday in a village founded and named for the American families that settled the remote community in the northern Mexican desert. Benjamin LeBaron, 31,...

The peso took a nosedive yesterday (probably temporary)… but this is an excellent opportunity to make contributions to the Mex Files go further… your dollars, Euros, pounds… are a much safer investment here than anywhere else, apparently.

Under a new agreement signed Monday, border crossings between Mexico and the United States should be better scrutinized than before… although we’re told the process (involving more scanning equipment and dogs) should allow the process to...

Lucha Reyes, born Maria de la Luz Flores 23 or 28 May (different sources use different birth dates) 1906 in Guadalajara, was one of the earliest of Mexican recording artists, and though recordings in the 1920s, introduced European audiences to Mexican...

Early on in the Calderón Adminstration’s “War on Drugs” the Army was sent into Zapatista controlled communities, allegedly to search for marijuana plantations.  Given that the Zapatistas are many things (many of which I disapprove of) but are...

Laura Carlsen — if not the best informed, then certainly in the top five, of well-informed foreign political correspondents writing about Mexico and Central America, questions the so-called “Guaymuras Accords” that either do … or don’t… end the coup in...

Joe Bageant, a self-confessed redneck intellectual, lives in what some describe as the “unreal Mexico”  — the gringo ghetto (or, if one prefers, “colony”) of Lago Ajijic.  His 2007 book Deer Hunting With Jesus is a report on the “class system that...

In his short post “Mexico: U.S. Totem” on Secret History, Jason Dormandy hits on one reason “The United States desperately needs Mexico, and I’m NOT talking about trade and labor”: I consider the general U.S. obsession with Mexico as a place to get...