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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...
I admit, I don’t care for British journalist Ed Vullimy’s reportage from Juarez. From a 4 October 2009 article in The Sunday Observer (U.K.) one reads:
Next morning the courtyard was still full of the bittersweet stench of fresh blood congealing in...
Having promised to come up with some sort of response to demands that the State of Chihuahua do something… anything… about the security problem in Juarez, the state goverment has decided to (at least temporarily) move the Governor, state legislature...
Disunited Nations
Paul Roberts (Living and Working in Mexico) had a “relaxing” vacation in Peru, getting himself stranded at Machu Picchu during the recent flooding. and lived to tell the tale very well indeed:
Every nationality behaved in somewhat...
The headline in El Universal says it all:
El PRD expulsa a diputado racista
Federal Deputy for Chiapas, Ariel Gmez Len, whining about his party’s request that deputies give up one day’s per diem of their already outrageously large daily allowance...
