Blogs about: Oaxaca En Luche 2006

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Beneath the surface in Oaxaca: Canadian gold mines1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: A quick “Google search” for Canadian ownership of Mexican gold mines turns up mostly cor … more »

Tags: Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Canada, Economy & Business, Environment, Human Rights, media, Mexican History 1524-1575 (Spanish Conquest), Mexican History 1810-1824 (Independence), Mexican History 1910-20 (Revolution)

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, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco I. Madero, Guerrilla movements, Haiti, Human Rights, Iran

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, Alternative Presidency, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), AMLO, Augustin Pinochet, Border Issues, Bureaucracy, Chile, Colombia

Head-bangers and mash for Oaxaca

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: Sheffield Anarchist Federation | 12.11.2007 14:55 Following a successful benefit gig in a derelict … more »

Tags: Charities, Great Britain, Minor parties, Oaxaca, Política mexicana, provincia, World (outside the Americas)

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: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc., Food and Drink, Franciso Toledo, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Mexican visual artists, Oaxaca, provincia, Sitting Bull

Oaxaca update (with an update)

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: My topes (moles) in Oaxaca have mixed feelings about Nancy Davis. They generally feel she’s a … more »

Tags: Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Legal System, Manifestaciones, Mexican Army, Mexican History 1921+

Make tortillas, not war...2 comments

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: Marc Becker traveled to Oaxaca and Chiapas with the Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas. I w … more »

Tags: chiapas, communism, Guerrilla movements, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Marriage, Mayans, Oaxaca, Política mexicana

Eeewww... abstention in Oaxaca nearly 80% (UPDATE)1 comment

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: UPDATED MONDAY AM) Oaxaca is reported to have had a “quiet” election. So far, PRI is re … more »

Tags: Aguascalientes, Baja California, FAP (PRD-PT-Convergencia), Oaxaca, pan, Política mexicana, prd, provincia

PRI and pre-Campaign Coverage

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: State elections are this Sunday in Oaxaca, Baja California and Aguascalientes. While any win in Oaxa … more »

Tags: 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, 2006 Elections, Aguascalientes, Baja California, Beatriz Paredes, FAP (PRD-PT-Convergencia), Felipe Calderon, Gays, Human Rights

"Revolutionary tourists" in Oaxaca...

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: My friends at Surreal Oaxaca have a lot of fun with the folks at the Oaxaca Action Study Group, see … more »

Tags: Clueless gringos in Mexico, Economy & Business, Gringolandia, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Manifestaciones, Oaxaca, Tourism, Zapotecs

Oacaca -- PRI giving up? 1 comment

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: My very loose translation from an article in today’s Jornada suggests the PRI is already tryin … more »

Tags: Human Rights, Oaxaca, Política mexicana, prd, pri, provincia

Naked frauds1 comment

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: While I have to I ask for contributions (donations, subscriptions… whatever you want to call t … more »

Tags: Política mexicana, Crime and Punishment, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Real Mexico, Oaxaca, Legal System, pri, provincia, media

Oaxaca- fair and balanced, for real2 comments

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: I’ve noticed that most coverage of the Oaxaca Guelaguetza riots leave out the context Those wh … more »

Tags: Economy & Business, Education and educators, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Manifestaciones, media, Mexican History 1575-1810 (Colonial Era), Oaxaca, policía

Must the show go on in Oaxaca?6 comments

richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: For the “show to go on” with the Mex Files, I really do have to ask for support. Thank … more »

Tags: Education and educators, Política mexicana, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Economy & Business, policía, Legal System, Human Rights, provincia, Manifestaciones

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: 2006 Elections, Alternative Presidency, AMLO, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon, Guerrilla movements, Human Rights

Habeas corpus, Oaxaca style3 comments

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: … in other words, something that doesn’t exist. This is for those who are still in deni … more »

Tags: Courts, Crime and Punishment, Evil-doers, Human Rights, Legal System, Oaxaca, Política mexicana, prisons, provincia

Snark...

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: Membership in the Oaxaca Study Action Group soars: “Hey, I’m a vegan, lesbian Political … more »

Tags: Clueless gringos in Mexico, Gringolandia, Molly Ivins, Non-Mexican writers/artists on Mexico, Oaxaca, Política mexicana, provincia, Zapotecs

Send in the marines?

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: I don’t highlight EVERY story that appears out of Mexico. I don’t see much point in pos … more »

Tags: 2006 Elections, Border Issues, ciudad de mexico, Courts, Crime and Punishment, drugs, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Felipe Calderon

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