Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 27, 2009, 1:09 pm
Yes, I know the Honduran non-elections are this weekend, that Ruth Zavala is quitting the PRD (possibly defecting to PAN!) and that history marches on… I am heading to Guadalajara next week for...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 26, 2009, 2:08 pm

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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 26, 2009, 1:05 pm
“Thanks” to the draconian border security regulations in the United States  what used to be temporary “undocumented workers” (who would return home after earning enough to sta...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 26, 2009, 12:05 pm
If there really is a drug dealing “family” seeking to control the Mexican state, it’s the one headed by Dr. Simi… the cartoon mascot of Farmacias Similares and Best Laboratorie...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 26, 2009, 9:27 am

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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 25, 2009, 10:42 am
Making the news rounds today is the American Chamber of Commerce’s (a Mexican business organization for U.S. owned or managed companies) study claiming close to 90 % of Mexicans buy pirated prod...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 25, 2009, 6:30 am
The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady is probably the only writer I’ll miss if the Journal, as owner Rupert Murdoch threatens, becomes unavailable on the internet without ...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 25, 2009, 6:00 am
Mexico is the United States’ closest Latin American neighbor and yet most U.S. citizens receive little reliable information about what is happening within the country. Instead, Mexico and Mexica...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 23, 2009, 4:05 pm
Really, why is anyone surprised that the U.S. Democratic Party is any more reactionary than the Republican Party when it comes to Latin American policy? Via Honduras Oye!: - The National Democratic ...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 22, 2009, 3:53 pm
It’s one of those great gross-out tales, supposedly only coming from the Heart of Darkness, i.e., Latin America: Reuters (19-November-2009): LIMA, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Peruvian police said...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 20, 2009, 6:00 am
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke You gotta understand It’s just our bringin’ upke That gets us out of hand Two thousand, four hundred and seventy-five posts ago, The Mex Files  started lif...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 19, 2009, 12:13 pm
Today is the 94th anniversary of the judicial murder of Joe Hill, executed by a Utah firing squad 19 November 1915.  Hill, a Swedish immigrant (born Joel Hägglund in the 1870s — no one seems t...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 19, 2009, 11:24 am
NGD, a Canadian gold-mining company is “cooperating with Mexican government authorities and pursuing all legal appeals after the company was notified yesterday that it must suspend mining operat...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 18, 2009, 2:35 pm
While there has been a small movement among the “crypto-Jews” — the descendants of the conversos who made up a large portion of the early Spanish emigration to the New World — ...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 18, 2009, 11:31 am
With the United States (and no one else) ready to recognize elections held under a “government” — that theoretically is not recognized by the United States — the Honduran Emba...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 18, 2009, 6:00 am
The Woodrow Wilson Institute for International Scholars Mexico site picked up an article from El Universal that has captured what I think is one of Mexico’s greatest challenges… facing nor...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 17, 2009, 10:17 pm
Esther (From Xico) caught (and translated) the article in Proceso about an apparently well-organized guerrilla hacking campaign, set off, perhaps, by the proposal to tax the internet, but raising a nu...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 17, 2009, 6:00 am
Rose Cromwell, a photographer in Panama, Photo by Rose Cromwell (http://rosecromwell.livejournal.com/) … sent out an email a week or so ago asking my dear family and friends to donate to my...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 16, 2009, 12:19 pm
New York Times (15-Nov-2009) A federal judge in Texas has issued final approval for Grupo Mexico’s plan to regain control of a copper mining company, Asarco, ending a lengthy takeover battle with a...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 16, 2009, 7:00 am
Patrick, at “Gancho Blog” picked up on this first, but I swear I was intending to write something about it. Edgardo Buscaglia, a law and economics professor at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológic...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 16, 2009, 6:00 am
Great speech! “Robert Erickson” was introduced to a 14 November Minnesota Tea Party Against Amnesty as a Minneapolis resident concerned about illegal immigration.  Some of the crowd neve...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 15, 2009, 6:00 am
I’m still moving into my new house  and already the Jehovah’s Witnesses have been by… with a message in almost perfect English. I realize the Witnesses have some deeply held convic...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 14, 2009, 3:41 pm
Commodity On-line, via capitalist tool (I mean that in a good way) Inca Kola News: When it comes to global manufacturing, Mexico is quickly emerging as the “new” China. According to corporate con...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 13, 2009, 4:30 pm
In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President Richard Nixon in the White House’s Blue Room. As a horde of media huddled a few feet away, the country music superstar had come to discu...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 13, 2009, 1:40 am
Oh well. I’ve mentioned the guy a total of 23 times (24 counting this one) over the  lifespan of The Mex Files.  I guess his resignation (a thinly disguised firing) at CNN IS a victory for ev...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 12, 2009, 6:30 am
I wonder if the driver had to take a drug test. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  Mexican police operations sometimes look as if they were planned by Norman Schwartzkoff (̶...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 12, 2009, 6:00 am
“Pepe”, José Merino, El DeFe statistician, researcher and Chilanogolist (or, should that be “Chilangologico”?) puts together a color coded map of market services available fro...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 11, 2009, 11:13 pm
A short postscript added 12-November-2009 Laura Carlsen, in today’s Americas: MexicoBlog writes on the Honduras “agreement”: What will surely go down in the books as one of the wor...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 11, 2009, 6:00 am
A lot of people, myself included, had our first job as teenagers making deliveries.  Bertha Martinez Sebastian is one of them… but her deliveries are a little more complicated than the morning ...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 10, 2009, 6:00 am
Esther (From Xico) has become enamoured with Netzahuacóatl… to the point where she is contemplating creating English translations of the poet-tlaotani: The entire article (a little long and we...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 9, 2009, 10:08 pm
While there are always things to be said about Mexico, this week posting will be mostly references to other sites. I’m busy with an editing project, and spend too much time in front of the comp...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 5, 2009, 7:00 am
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 ...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 5, 2009, 6:00 am
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 Zapa...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 4, 2009, 6:00 am
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 R...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 3, 2009, 2:05 pm
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...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 3, 2009, 3:02 am
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 lab...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 1, 2009, 4:30 pm

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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 1, 2009, 1:00 pm
Alien Invaders! Orson Wells’ 1939 “War of the Worlds” was probably the best hoax in the radio age. Too good to pull off once, the joke was tried again in Santiago, Chile in 1944, a...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Nov 1, 2009, 6:00 am
In what the foreign “assistance” community that controls Haiti right now are calling a troubling, but constitutional, move, the Haitian Senate’s sacked  Prime Minister Michèle Pier...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 31, 2009, 4:18 pm
Some local politicians just never have accepted term limits! Mexico City’s historic council chambers, el Salón de Cabildos, has a long history and more than a few ghosts. A fun factoid. When...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 31, 2009, 7:45 am
(Updated at 8:30 PM with reference to “The Nation”) Throughout the Honduran crisis the media have reported agreements between the two sides as if Micheletti was really capable of making c...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 30, 2009, 5:30 pm
On the Road with Lola and Lucha. Cars were bigger back in the early 1960s when Sinaloa’s queen of the rancheras, Lola Beltran (born 24 March 1932 in Rosario) and Lucha Villa could cruise the str...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 30, 2009, 3:13 pm
The Dallas Morning News’ entire Havana bureau is Tracy Eaton.  Half of the entire original United States press corps in Cuba (the other was Laurie Goering of the Chicago Tribune) since 2000, Ea...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 29, 2009, 3:20 pm
The rebellion of the geeks succeeded. The three percent telecommunciations connection tax is dead. However, it appears that PRI and PAN senators have more or less signed off on a one percent raise i...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 29, 2009, 12:05 pm
La Granja, the Los Tigres del Norte fable about the collapse of Mexican agriculture (and society) under the mismanagement of the “drug war” is not exactly banned by the government.  Howev...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 19, 2009, 8:00 am
Assuming Hurricane Rick DOES hit Cabo San Lucas sometime in the next 48 hours, and doesn’t continue to weaken (as it has been) we may be in for a good rain … but that’s about it̷...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 19, 2009, 7:00 am
Given the wide-spread rejection of a two percent rise in IVA (the value added tax), PAN President César Nava has been whistling past the rapidly filling graveyard of dead Calderón Administration pro...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 19, 2009, 1:29 am
Any wonder why so many communities around Latin America really don’t want foreign mining companies around? PERU: In a case that will highlight growing tensions between powerful mining interest...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 18, 2009, 6:00 am
Nun-sense Via Secret History, comes a link to an introduction to the work of Sor Teresa Forcades, a Benedictine nun from Barcelona with a doctorate in Public Health and a Masters in Divinity under he...
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Richard G. posted an article on The Mex Files - Oct 17, 2009, 3:44 pm
Sean Goforth, Foreign Policy Association Mexico Blog has been uncovering interesting material this week. It’s the second time I’ve found something for the MexFiles on his site in as many ...
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