DJW's post on the Mexican judicial elections made me want to add a bit from my perspective of someone who spends a lot of time in the country. That said, I am not a Mexicanist and my Spanish is bad. So I am not an...
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It seems pretty clear at this point that Mexico is the major country in the world today where the "left populist" electoral formula has been highly successful. To say that.
As I've said, I am in Mexico for a couple of months. My wife and I are both on sabbatical and she has a Fulbright, being the smart one in.
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This is the grave of Alexander Shepherd. Born in 1835 in Washington, D.C., Shepherd grew up working class, dropped of school at the age of 13, and got a job.
On March 6, 1922, a group of sex workers in Veracruz, Mexico burned their beds and mattresses as part of a growing rent strike in that city. This became a.
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You might think the avocado you love just comes from Mexico and it's all good. But it is very much not all good. The whole avocado trade is wrapped up.
On November 20, 1536, the conquistador Hernán Cortés buys a bunch of silver mines and acquires between 100 and 200 Native slaves. This moment is an excellent entry point to.
If you haven't read the Times' deep dive into the text messages it acquired that unveils as much as we are likely to ever know about how the Mexican military helped deliver the 43 students at Ayotzinapa into the hands of a paranoid drug gang,...
As a general rule, I don't consider David Ignatius to be among the worst commenters in Beltway Blob land. But his profile of the Mexican politician Xóchitl Gálvez is a.
I hate the false dichotomy above, which comes from this interview with the food writer Anya von Bremzen about her new book on national dishes, which includes a chapter on.