Posts About Mexico
Viva The Other Left
I hope this narcissist’s loss will start a domino effect, away from “Che-chic” and toward a solid, modern left.
More Public Transit, Fewer Grand Monuments
Mexico City’s pollution troubles are well known. The city’s 22 million people live inside an immense valley that holds noxious waste just like a pressure cooker. The main source of this environmental chaos is the four million cars that clog...
Invest in Mexico, Give Migrants Choice
There is no pleasure in migration. Migrants -- or at least Mexican migrants -- leave their countries of origin because they have no real choice. Naturally, this is primarily that country’s fault. I agree with Daoud that the answer is development: the U.S. should invest, but the Mexican government should be held accountable.
Mexico: It's Not Iraq, It's the Border
Anti-Americanism in Mexico is probably on the rise, but Mexico's brand is very different from that in other parts of the world. It's causes are also much closer to home -- not U.S. policy in the Middle East, but the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigration reform is the last hurdle in an otherwise increasingly symbiotic relationship.
Pricing Mexico's Diligent Migrants
Through their hard work and honest living, Mexican migrant workers have earned the right for migration reform. The same could be said of their American employers, who benefit from the migrants' work ethic.
A Perfect Dictatorship?
Putin’s Russia has suddenly grown claws. It seems intent in reclaiming its long lost petro-bully fame.
Reform Immigration
Mexico City - Ultra-conservatives rule American electoral politics. They equate immigration reform with amnesty. Now politicians must give up the rhetoric and address the issue.
State Gives Press Freedom, Drug Lords Take It Away
Mexico City, Mexico - Newspapermen have been under the direct threat of Mexico's sanguinary drug traffickers and mafia lords. The story of Zeta, Tijuana's main newspaper, reads like a James Ellroy novel on acid.
A Pre-Emptive Strike
Lima, Peru - Lopez Obrador's a priori attempt at forced regime change in Mexico will face the same problems that all more or less non-violent strategies of civil disobedience do. They are not sprints but rather medium and long distance affairs: Not anaerobic but aerobic revolutions.
Mexico at the Crossroads
Mexico City, Mexico -- July 2 is truly Mexico's appointment with history. Its presidential elections will determine the country's path in the 21st century. The right choice, for those who can appreciate it, is clear. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador represents...
Trader, Subsidizer, Revolutionary? Doesn't Matter
Budapest, Hungary -- For the White House, the result of the Mexican election can't be as good as it is hoped or as bad as it is feared. So here's my message to anybody in the U.S. administration who happens...
Lopez Obrador: Mexico's Willie Stark?
Caracas, Venezuela -- Despite his inflamed campaign rhetoric, Lopez Obrador is both a populist and a mainline PRI politician, so don't expect his electoral victory to affect the rest of Latin America in any decisive way....
Give Annan a Rest: Play Ronaldinho
Mexico -- In a time when it's becoming increasingly fashionable to talk about a clash of civilizations, the World Cup offers at least the prospect of hope: if people from Iran and the United States can share a stadium in...
