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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" (Shelley)

richmx2 wrote 2 days ago: I don’t know that stupid court cases are particularly Mexican, but this particular stupid court ca … more »

Tags: Campeche, Courts, Crime and Punishment, Human Rights, Legal System, Mexican writers, provincia, Real Mexico

The Lady Killer

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Juana Barraza Samperio is unique in the annals of crime. Serial killers are very rare in Latin Amer … more »

Tags: ciudad de mexico, Courts, Crime and Punishment, Evil-doers, Folklore/customs, Guanajuanto, Humor, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples)

A tree grows in Polanco...and a bush in Culiacán

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Alfredo, aka “Citius64″ has his own favorite, but according to The Guardian, the “ … more »

Tags: ciudad de mexico, Humor, Economy & Business, Agriculture, provincia, Environment, Tourism, sinaloa, Polanco

Another good reason to learn Spanish1 comment

richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: From the (English-language) Guadalajara Reporter:   … Two American tourists, Billy David … more »

Tags: Clueless gringos in Mexico, Economy & Business, guadalajara, Jalisco, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Legal System, media, Non-Mexican writers/artists on Mexico, policía

Al Gore, Sitting Bull, and the Yale art department1 comment

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: Dan Bischoff, a staff writer for the Newark (New Jersey) Star-Ledger, reviewing El Maestro Francisc … more »

Tags: La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Oaxaca, Human Rights, Food and Drink, provincia, Oaxaca en luche (2006), Zapotecs, Franciso Toledo, Mexican visual artists

Creative License

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: SOMEBODY’S not quite telling the truth here: There’s a whole sub-genre of Mexican litera … more »

Tags: 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, Carlos Fuentes, Diego Rivera, Elena Poniatowska, Emily Dickinson, Evil-doers, George W. Bush, Gringolandia, Kitsch

The harder they come, the bigger they fall...

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: I was going to write about this, but Burro Hall beat me to it, and did a better job The local poli … more »

Tags: Humor, Kitsch, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), pan, Política mexicana, prd, pri, provincia, Veracruz

Quote of the day

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: “It is an absurd idea, and given that it’s so absurd, it may just be successful.” … more »

Tags: Carlos Monsivais, Economy & Business, Food and Drink, Humor, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Mexican writers, multinationals, Real Mexico, taco bell

Art news...

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: San Antonio Express-News Some Mexican media outlets, afraid of retaliation from drug lords, have s … more »

Tags: drugs, Crime and Punishment, Real Mexico, provincia, media, Mexican visual artists, sinaloa

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: Alternative Presidency, AMLO, ciudad de mexico, Education and educators, Felipe Calderon, frida kahlo, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Manifestaciones

Touché!

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: My slightly snarky joke about San Antonio (I’d said you ALMOST heard as much English as in Can … more »

Tags: Education and educators, Gringolandia, Border Issues, Texas, Mexican writers, Writers, artists, philosphers outside Mexico, Political bloggers, James Joyce

Endeavor to persevere...2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: The cranky “comments” and emails I sometimes get from people — aside from the illi … more »

Tags: Bureaucracy, Economy & Business, Emigrant labor/remittances, Franz Kafka, Gringolandia, Human Rights, Indocumentados, Legal System, Lou Dobbs

"White men don't dance"1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Jorge Zepeda Patterson on a visit to the strange country to the North: (original in El Informador de … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Real Mexico, Mexican writers, Jorge Zepeda Patterson

Streets of Poets (Sor Juana)5 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: The Unapologetic Mexican was kind of happy to see I’d written on the Mexican slaves – and ex … more »

Tags: carmelites, Catholic Church, ciudad de mexico, Education and educators, Jeronimites, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Mexican Baroque, Mexican History 1575-1810 (Colonial Era), Mexican writers

¡Feliz cumpleaños! Gabriel Garcia Marquez1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago:   The Nobel Prize Winning Columbian-born author (and naturalized Mexican citizen) after a   … more »

Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa

"To see ourselves as other see us"

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: This sounds like it’s a hoot…  “There’s no abundance of travel books in our nationa … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Humor, Carlos Monsivais, Tourism, Jorge Ibargüengoitia

¡Canallas! (though I think "scumbags" works better)

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Being one of the Heroic Donors, I’m pissed.  Muerte en canasto by Franciso Toledo, Interior  … more »

Tags: Charities, ciudad de mexico, Crime and Punishment, Evil-doers, Franciso Toledo, Guillermo Scully, Heroico Cuerpo de Donadores, José Luis Cuevas, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples)

Diego Rivera rides again... on the Metro

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: One of the greatest things about Mexican artists is that they aren’t artistes.  Except for si … more »

Tags: ciudad de mexico, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Education and educators, Jose Clemene Orozco, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), METRO, Real Mexico, TePito

"If Texas were a sane place, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun"2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: DAMN… two of the best people in Texas in a week. One famous for what she said, the other … more »

Tags: animals, Big Bend, Burros and mules, Gringolandia, media, Molly Ivins, Texas


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