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I guess this is what "free trade" means...1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 days ago: The corporations are free of pesky union regulations, and can trade off basic human rights for profi … more »

Tags: Álvaro Colom, Economy & Business, Guatemala, multinationals, Organized Labor (Sindacatos), Trade agreements and issues

So, where will George W. go when he retires?3 comments

richmx2 wrote 2 weeks ago: I expect we’ll be hearing some more about the Bush famil y’s 98,000 acre spread in Parag … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, cuba, Economy & Business, Ecuador, Fidel Castro

Strangers in the neighborhood

richmx2 wrote 3 weeks ago: Roman Cotera, the Amazing Mexican takes an amazing look at the U.S. presidential candidates: The thi … more »

Tags: Adolfo Aguilar Zinzer, Barack Obama, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Gringolandia, hillary clinton, John McCain

For my Brazilian readers...

richmx2 wrote 4 weeks ago: It appears I have a second reason to move the Mexfiles to a different platform (though I’ll st … more »

Tags: Brazil

Show us the (illegal immigrant) money2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Today’s New York Times editorial must have been written by someone who reads The Mex Files: I … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Economy & Business, Human Rights, Indocumentados, health, Informal economy, Jamaica, Emigrant labor/remittances, Bureaucracy

MexFiles endorses the candidate for change...2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: The Presidential election has come down to a cranky old ex-military guy (with ties to the Bush inner … more »

Tags: Paraguay

A touch of green for St. Patrick's Day

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: Panamanian police arrested an Indian, Nicaraguan and Panamanian yesterday.  They were the alleged r … more »

Tags: Colima, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Manzanillo, money-laundering, Panama

Things not going better with coke... Colombia v. everybody

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Following on the heels of the FARC-fetched explanations of why the Colombians launched a missile int … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, drugs, CIA, Crime and Punishment, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador

Field trip?

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: While initial reports on the Colombian rocket attack on the FARC encampment in Ecuador mentioned a M … more »

Tags: ciudad de mexico, Colombia, Crime and Punishment, Death Squads, drugs, Ecuador, Education and educators, Evil-doers, Groucho Marx

Compare and contrast...1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: I’m surprised no one has commented on this, but do you notice something about OUR friend Alvar … more »

Tags: Colombia, Crack-pots, Ecuador, Venezuela

What you see is what you get?

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: It is likely that the problem that Mexico’s criminal justice system is facing today is rooted … more »

Tags: Courts, Crime and Punishment, Legal System, media, Nota Rojas (Crime News)

What we have here is a failure to communicate...

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Although this is a Mexico-focused website, it’s hard to ignore what has happened in Ecuador. … more »

Tags: Terrorism, cuba, Venezuela, Luis Posada Carriles (U.S. terrorist), Colombia, Ecuador

What the FARC? What I think I know so far....

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Fidel Castro (remember him?) says the “trumpets of war” have sounded in the Americas, as the re … more »

Tags: Canada, Chile, Colombia, Crime and Punishment, cuba, Death Squads, drugs, Ecuador, Evil-doers

Shouldn't we be building that wall in Minnesota?

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Michael Chertoff’s deepest fears: Terrorists entering U.S. from Canada BY JAMES GORDON MEEK da … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Terrorism, Border Issues, Evil-doers, Homeland Security!, Canada, Bureaucracy

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: Alternative Presidency, AMLO, Catholic Church, Economy & Business, Hugo Chavez, Iran, LAZARO CÁRDENAS, Mexican History 1921+, Oil and PEMEX

See no evil

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: “Out of sight, out of mind” seems to be the modus operandi when it comes to locking peop … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, policía, Legal System, Human Rights, Charities, Indocumentados, Texas

Unthinkable in the Americas?1 comment

richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: . Maria Esthella Martinez de Peron, Argentina (1974-79) Lidia Gueler Tejada, Bolivia (1979-1980) V … more »

Tags: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Nicaragua, Panama

Stupid parents = stupid kids11 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: From “South Texas Chisme“: While the rest of her fifth-grade class was taking Spanish cl … more »

Tags: Education and educators, Texas, Crack-pots, Spanish/Spanglish

Don't know much about (Latin American) geography...

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Christy Thompson in NACLA: With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Banking, Barack Obama, Border Issues, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Fence Coalition, Gringolandia, health


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