Blogs about: Alternative Presidency
Swiftboating a la Mexicana
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richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Under the Presidential system that prevailed in Mexico for most of the last two centuries, a “ … more »
Don't cry for me, PEMEX
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richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: I haven’t had the time to digest the latest proposal from the Calderón Administration, but wi … more »
The spin doesn't stop here: Juan Camilo Mouriño
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Felipe Calderón’s nomination of Juan Camilo Mouriño as Secretarío de Gobernacion, did more to r … more »
Do we want to be a colony? AMLO
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richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: For a backgrounder on PEMEX, I was forwarded a rough machine translation of an interview with Raúl … more »
Zapatistas... what have they done lately?
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richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Immanuel Wallerstein, the anti-globalist academic historian and sociologist, presumably is pro-Zapat … more »
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 »
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 »
For whom the bells tolled
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richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Last Tuesday, for the first time since the 1920s (during the priest’s strike in protest of enf … more »
Mexican election sanity -- why can't the U.S. do this?
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: How long have the U.S. elections been going on now. Er, rather, when do they “officially” start … more »
Mercosur... details at 11
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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 »
Round up the (un)usual suspects
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: (slightly updated 15-July… I made a stupid translation error — taking “junque … more »
A Mexican 9-11?
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: “As the classic says, ‘war is politics by other means.’” (ERP 2nd Communiqu … more »
PEMEX, AMLO and EPR... it's a blast
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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 »
Parallel universes? AMLO in the news
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Catherine Bremer, writing for Reuters, says: The leftist who a year ago was a hair’s breadth f … more »
AMLO is back... he never went away
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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 »
Frida FINALLY draws the masses... sorta
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richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: (Photo: Marco Peláez, Jornada) See… I told you all Mexicans aren’t Frida Kahlo fans. … more »
Calderón's iron-fisted governance may back-fire
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Fred Rosen’s long analysis of FElipe CALderón’s “law n’ order” appro … more »
"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 »
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 »
