Blogs about: Alternative Presidency

Swiftboating a la Mexicana3 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Under the Presidential system that prevailed in Mexico for most of the last two centuries, a “ … more »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, 2006 Elections, Adolf Hitler, AMLO, BENITO MUSSOLINI, Carlos Monsivais, Crime and Punishment, Dick Morris

Don't cry for me, PEMEX2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I haven’t had the time to digest the latest proposal from the Calderón Administration, but wi … more »

Tags: AMLO, Economy & Business, FAP (PRD-PT-Convergencia), Felipe Calderon, multinationals, Oil and PEMEX, Política mexicana, pri, technology

The spin doesn't stop here: Juan Camilo Mouriño7 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Felipe Calderón’s nomination of Juan Camilo Mouriño as Secretarío de Gobernacion, did more to r … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, AMLO, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Human Rights, Juan Camilo Moreño, media, Mexican History 1575-1810 (Colonial Era), Mexican History 1824-1910

Do we want to be a colony? AMLO2 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: For a backgrounder on PEMEX, I was forwarded a rough machine translation of an interview with Raúl … more »

Tags: AMLO, Catholic Church, Política mexicana, Hugo Chavez, Economy & Business, Trade agreements and issues, Porfirio Diaz, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Oil and PEMEX

Zapatistas... what have they done lately?4 comments

richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Immanuel Wallerstein, the anti-globalist academic historian and sociologist, presumably is pro-Zapat … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, Agriculture, AMLO, "Marcos" (Rafael Gullien), carlos salinas, chiapas, Economy & Business, Education and educators, FAP (PRD-PT-Convergencia)

The Return of the Barbarians

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Without a doubt, this is the longest piece ever posted on the Mex Files. Unfortunately, I’ve h … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), AMLO, Augustin Pinochet, Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Chile, Colombia, communism

Nazis, the Bells and Vicente Fox gets a Hummer... some updates

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Sergio Robles (the scholar, not the former catcher for the Baltimore Orioles) was kind enough to com … more »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, AMLO, Jesse Helms, Manifestaciones, Mexican History 1921+, Minor parties, pan, Política mexicana, Political bloggers

For whom the bells tolled2 comments

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Last Tuesday, for the first time since the 1920s (during the priest’s strike in protest of enf … more »

Tags: AMLO, Catholic Church, Centro Historico, ciudad de mexico, Human Rights, Juan Sandoval Iñiguez (Cardinal of Guadalajara), La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Manifestaciones, media

Mexican election sanity -- why can't the U.S. do this? 1 comment

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: How long have the U.S. elections been going on now. Er, rather, when do they “officially” start … more »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, 2006 Elections, AMLO, Barack Obama, Dick Morris, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, Gringolandia

Mercosur... details at 112 comments

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: I’ll have more to say on this later, but it’s something I’ve thought for a long ti … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, Política mexicana, Economy & Business, Trade agreements and issues, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Felipe Calderon, Argentina, mercosur, Brazil

Round up the (un)usual suspects1 comment

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago:  (slightly updated 15-July… I made a stupid translation error — taking “junque … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, AMLO, 2006 Elections, Política mexicana, Terrorism, CIA, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Francisco Franco

A Mexican 9-11?2 comments

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: “As the classic says, ‘war is politics by other means.’” (ERP 2nd Communiqu … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, AMLO, Carlos Montemayor, Chinese Mexicans, Courts, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers

PEMEX, AMLO and EPR... it's a blast3 comments

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: ¡Para justicia y libertad! posted on this before I did, and Edmundo has most of what I was going to … more »

Tags: AMLO, 2006 Elections, Política mexicana, Terrorism, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Oaxaca, Trade agreements and issues, Legal System

Parallel universes? AMLO in the news1 comment

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Catherine Bremer, writing for Reuters, says: The leftist who a year ago was a hair’s breadth f … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, AMLO, ciudad de mexico, Clueless gringos in Mexico, media, Política mexicana, Spin doctors

AMLO is back... he never went away6 comments

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Most of the foreign press thought it was some kind of joke when Andres Manuel Lopez Obradór was sw … more »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, 2006 Elections, AMLO, ciudad de mexico, Cuauhtémoc Cardenas, Economy & Business, FAP (PRD-PT-Convergencia), Felipe Calderon

Frida FINALLY draws the masses... sorta1 comment

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: (Photo: Marco Peláez, Jornada) See… I told you all Mexicans aren’t Frida Kahlo fans. … more »

Tags: Education and educators, AMLO, ciudad de mexico, Política mexicana, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., prd, Human Rights, frida kahlo

Calderón's iron-fisted governance may back-fire2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Fred Rosen’s long analysis of FElipe CALderón’s “law n’ order” appro … more »

Tags: Education and educators, AMLO, 2006 Elections, Política mexicana, drugs, Crime and Punishment, Real Mexico, Economy & Business, policía

"As it is"... the un-holy matrimony of PAN and PRI

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Even as an outsider, I’d noticed that the 2006 election bore more resemblance to the 1988 elec … more »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, 2006 Elections, Alvaro Obregon, AMLO, Baja California, Banking, carlos salinas, Cuauhtémoc Cardenas

AMLO - "Don't mourn for me, organize"

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: From today’s El Universal: (Jorge Octavio Ochoa, my translation) Before a capacity crowd of su … more »

Tags: AMLO, 2006 Elections, ciudad de mexico, Política mexicana, Real Mexico, Economy & Business, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), pri, prd


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