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Linda D: Badiou, Mexico and How the People Stir

Linda D is a Maoist, revolutionary, and artist living in Mexico. She is a founding member of the RCP who left the party during the 1980s. (Click on the picture to the right.) Oh Man…this is so wild… more »

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cinco de mayo — 2 comments

timothy allen brown wrote 1 week ago: in celebration of cinco de mayo (the commemoration of a small mexican army made up of primarily mest … more »

Tags: History, Music, Socio-Political

¡Que Viva Zapata, Cabrones!

Michael Tangeman wrote 1 month ago: For those of you who may not have remembered, today is the anniversary of the assassination of Emili … more »

Tags: General

On This Day, 4-10-08: John Paul Jones

John Randals wrote 1 month ago: John Paul Jones sets out to raid British ships On April 10, 1778, Commander John Paul Jones and his … more »

Tags: History

Linda D: Badiou, Mexico and How the People Stir — 4 comments

Mike E wrote 1 month ago: Linda D is a Maoist, revolutionary, and artist living in Mexico. She is a founding member of the RC … more »

Tags: Alain Badiou, Linda D, México, Pancho Villa, Zapatistas

What Revolution? — 3 comments

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: The Mexican Revolution was really three or four revolutions depending on how you define a revolution … more »

Tags: China, ciudad de mexico, Economy & Business, Francisco I. Madero, Guerrilla movements, Haiti, Human Rights, Iran, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples)

Marcos does Mexico... pornographers unite! — 3 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: I don’t particularly trust Marcos (Rafael Guillén, I mean. I always thought the “man of my … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, AMLO, "Marcos" (Rafael Gullien), birth control, ciudad de mexico, communism, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business

21 April 1914: Woodrow Wilson invades Veracruz in his pajamas — 1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago:  More from my book: Woodrow Wilson, who from the Mexican view, should have stayed out of his neigh … more »

Tags: Alvaro Obregon, Bill Clinton, Francisco I. Madero, Harry S Truman, Henry Lane Wilson, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, Victoriano Huerta

Mateo Zapata D.E.P. (21 de septiembre de 1917 - 10 de enero de 2007) — 6 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Mateo Emiliano Zapata Peréz, though only 18 months old when his father was assasinated in April 19 … more »

Tags: Agrarianismo, Alejandro Fernandez, Alfonso Arau, Ejército Libertador del Sur, Gays, Lucero, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Movies and TV, Porfirio Diaz

Zapatista attack? Probably, not proven — 3 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Bill Weinberg, at World War 4 Report, claims the GOVERNMENT was behind the almost unreported attack … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, Agriculture, "Marcos" (Rafael Gullien), chiapas, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Emperor Maximiliano, Environment, Human Rights

Where was the romanticism? — 2 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BY THE MYSTERIOUS “LYN_2″, BUT SHE’S NOT REGISTERED ON THIS … more »

Tags: Alvaro Obregon, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Luz Corral, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Pancho Villa, Parral Chih., Real Mexico

Pancho and Woodrow... and Lyn and Luz and Ramon Novarro — 1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 years ago: Pancho Villa is STILL causing problems for us foreigners. Nah… not the “Frente Pancho Vi … more »

Tags: Alvaro Obregon, Ambrose Bierce, Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., Border Issues, CIA, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, communism, Crime and Punishment

"Ill be a Zapatista til the day I die"

richmx2 wrote 3 years ago: Translated from 11-Feb-2005 Jornada article by Arturo Garcia Hernandez. One of the last survivors of … more »

Tags: Ejército Libertador del Sur, Guerrero (State), Mauricio Ramirez Cerón, Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution), Morelos (State), Venustiano Carranza, Zapatistas

Damage Control....in Full Swing

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: The people have voted, the votes have been counted and some re-counted, TRIFE has declared the winn … more »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, 2006 Elections, Alternative Presidency, AMLO, Cuauhtémoc Cardenas, Felipe Calderon, Francisco I. Madero, Gringolandia, LYN_2 posts

The Dead Tour -- 2003 — 3 comments

richmx2 wrote 4 years ago: Nobody knows where all the bodies are buried: this is a very old city, and many of the early cemeter … more »

Tags: Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, Benito Juarez, Cemeteries, ciudad de mexico, Dias de los Muertos, Diego Rivera, Emperor Maximiliano, Hernan Cortés, Isadora Duncan