Blogs about: Organized Labor Sindacatos

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

richmx2 wrote 5 days ago: The corporations are free of pesky union regulations, and can trade off basic human rights for profi … more »

Tags: Álvaro Colom, Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico), Economy & Business, Guatemala, multinationals, Trade agreements and issues

Mex Files finds Jimmy Hoffa!

richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: He’s under Elba Esther Gordillo’s make-up. The scary ex-kindergarten teacher is STILL … more »

Tags: Education and educators, Política mexicana, Economy & Business, Ester Elba Gordilla

The corn is as high...2 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Nancy Davis translated the highlights of a startling report by Matilde Peréz U. that appeared in t … more »

Tags: Agriculture, ciudad de mexico, Economy & Business, Food and Drink, Gringolandia, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Manifestaciones, multinationals

Don't shop for me, organize1 comment

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: As goes Los Cabos, so goes… Lake Chapala, San Miguel …? The cost-of-living for Mexican w … more »

Tags: Walmart, Economy & Business, provincia, Clueless gringos in Mexico, Cabo San Lucas, Baja Califonia Sur

No corn, no country4 comments

richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Canada’s Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz last week said the United States, Mexico and Canada w … more »

Tags: Agriculture, Bureaucracy, ciudad de mexico, Economy & Business, Food and Drink, Human Rights, La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples), Manifestaciones, NAFTA

Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce... one cent more won't upset us

richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: I wrote about the genuinely heroic Lucas Benitez and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers back in Augu … more »

Tags: Economy & Business, Agriculture, Human Rights, Food and Drink, Emigrant labor/remittances, Tomatos

"Unintended consequences"

richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: I disagree with Senator Sanders of Vermont (somewhat) that NAFTA’s results were unintentional … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Economy & Business, Trade agreements and issues, NAFTA, Human Rights, Border Issues, Environment, Evil-doers, Informal economy

Neo-braceros without tears...

richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: On all sides of the farm industry, the administration’s behind-the-scenes initiative to revamp … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Economy & Business, Legal System, Agriculture, Human Rights, Food and Drink, Border Issues, Indocumentados, Homeland Security!

Peons v fast food... peons win round one!2 comments

richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: With all due respect to Lucas Benítez, the most amazing — and troubling — part of this … more »

Tags: Tacos, Economy & Business, Agriculture, Food and Drink, Border Issues, Charities, multinationals, taco bell, Tomatos

Snow White's Wicked Queen, the Border and the Mex Files1 comment

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: Being at least temporarily flat-ass broke as a result of disseminating what one person called “Pra … more »

Tags: Bette Davis, Border Issues, communism, Dolores Del Rio, Economy & Business, Emigrant labor/remittances, Gayle Sondergaard, Gringolandia, Human Rights

Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers... 9 comments

richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: … now we know how they undersell local merchants. They stiff their bagboys. In a country whe … more »

Tags: Walmart, Economy & Business, Evil-doers, Informal economy, Clueless gringos in Mexico, multinationals

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, Oaxaca en luche (2006)

AMLO is back... he never went away6 comments

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 »

Tags: 1988 Presidential election, 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, 2006 Elections, Alternative Presidency, AMLO, ciudad de mexico, Cuauhtémoc Cardenas, Economy & Business, FAP (PRD-PT-Convergencia)

Indians to las Indias

richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: Add into the mix of Indians in Mexico… Indians. From Delhi News Agency:   NEW DELHI: Indi … more »

Tags: Education and educators, Economy & Business, Trade agreements and issues, NAFTA, Agriculture, India, Emigrant labor/remittances

All they will call you will be deportee2 comments

richmx2 wrote 12 months ago: I’ve posted before about the Swift Meat Packing raids in Marshalltown Iowa (here and here and … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Real Mexico, Economy & Business, Human Rights, provincia, Indocumentados, Texas, Evil-doers, media

Give us the duck and nobody gets hurt1 comment

richmx2 wrote 12 months ago: MEXICO CITY – Donald Duck has chased off a Mexican look-alike after a trademark dispute that simm … more »

Tags: Beer, Coca-Cola, Economy & Business, Food and Drink, Gringolandia, Mexican History 1921+, multinationals, NAFTA, Real Mexico

Rites of Spring in Oaxaca3 comments

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: In the Big Bend we know Spring is coming when the retirees in their buses and RVs start flocking no … more »

Tags: Education and educators, Humor, Oaxaca, provincia, Oaxaca en luche (2006), Manifestaciones, Evil-doers, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Guerrilla movements

Another travel warning... ho hum

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News is the source for the AP wire stories on the latest warn … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, drugs, Crime and Punishment, Economy & Business, Trade agreements and issues, technology, Monterrey, NAFTA, Agriculture

Is the U.S. becoming Mexico or vise-versa?1 comment

richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Think Progress back in January 2006 from Bloomberg: Federal authorities issued 21 citations last yea … more »

Tags: Gringolandia, Catholic Church, Crime and Punishment, Real Mexico, Economy & Business, Legal System, Human Rights, provincia, Religion


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