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The Mex Files looks at Mexican art, history, culture, politics, economics, news, some travel and the general weirdness that usually comes blowing in from the north.
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9.3
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The more than Mormon Murders — Chihuahua

Jul 8, 2009
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,...

Like a rock

Sep 30, 2008
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.

Send lawyers and scanners … not guns and money

Nov 30, 1999
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...

If it bleeds, it leads

Feb 8, 2010
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...

Movin' on up why?

Feb 7, 2010
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...

Sunday Readings 7 February 2010

Feb 7, 2010
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...

Adios, Chunko

Feb 6, 2010
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...

Perdon!

Feb 5, 2010
One of the great paradoxes of Mexican culture — one of the politest people in the world can are also some of the biggest potty-mouths on the planet.

The more than Mormon Murders — Chihuahua


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Reinaldo DaS...
9.7
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  Good information, as I've come to expect from Richard Grabmann
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Señor Steve
9.2
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  Why do I not rate The Mex Files at a ten? Beats me. Sheer stubbornness, I guess.
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Posted 9/27/09 10:09 PM