I guess we shouldn't be surprised that Fox News hosts wouldn't know the difference between Mexico and Nicaragua and probably assumes they all wear sombreros and take siestas.
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The Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 29, 1863, arguing that God would not allow the South to become like Mexico: The convulsion which is to cause a permanent disruption of the.
I've spent July in southern Mexico. The region today is defined by immigration. Traveling to one of the towns my wife studies, way up in the Mixteca, an indigenous and.
The apparel industry's terrible toll upon working-class Asians becomes more apparent everyday: "Distressed” jeans are designed to make that wear-and-tear look seem oh-so-effortless, but it can be the result of someone’s body taking a real beating. According to a recent investigation by the advocacy groups...
Doing a bit of travel writing on my month in Mexico for RI Future. Put up my first entry today on the Tlatelolco Massacre of 1968 and the perils of.
Jeffrey Pilcher, the noted historian of food in Mexico, has a new book placing Mexican food in a global context. When thinking of a nation's food, particularly one as laden.
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of Americans to their results. In 1846, the U.S. went to war with Mexico for no...
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World.
If you haven't read Karla Zabludovsky's piece today on locals in Michoacán organizing to fight illegal logging by criminal gangs that is robbing them of their livelihood and traditional ways.
The following is a guest post by Colin Snider of Americas South and North. While the US media is understandably focused on its own presidential elections this year, they are not the only elections taking place that will have a direct impact on the hemisphere...
Edward Rothstein, last seen at LGM deciding that the state of Colorado actually does have history, drops a real stinker today. Rothstein goes to Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, and tells.
Via Yann, if you are an American, you are safer traveling in Mexico than in Texas. Obviously, if you are Mexican and live in Juarez or Matamoros, you aren't very.