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Ciudad Juarez

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Border Violence No Big Threat to U.S., Report Says

    All the talk about Mexico's rampant drug-related violence bleeding into the U.S., along with the threat of terrorists creeping in from the southern border, is overblown, according to a new study. The Washington Office on Latin America, which promotes itself as a group focusing on human rights, demo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Ron Thomas at CSUF Social Justice Summit: Defend the Homeless

    "Here's that beautiful picture of Kelly on the right," said Ron Thomas, as he pointed to a portrait of his smiling son toward the end of his PowerPoint presentation on homelessness at Cal State University Fullerton's eighth-annual social justice summit on Saturday, April 14. "Right here, [Kelly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Ron Thomas Among Confirmed Speakers At CSUF's Social Justice Summit

    One of the world's deadliest cities lies just south of El Paso, Texas: the border town of Ciudad Juarez. For nearly two decades, murder and rape have rocked the town, especially its women, leaving an estimated 10,000 unsolved and uninvestigated murders since 2007. The violence in Juarez is on ... More >>

  • Food

    April 5, 2012

    One Nation, Under Tacos

    An excerpt from 'Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America'

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Stop Stealing Our Cars, New Documentary, Shows Santa Ana's Fight Against Unjust Impound Policies

    ​Working-class immigrant residents of SanTana have been beneficiaries of new, fairer vehicle impound policies since October 1, 2011, when activists scored a solid grassroots victory. Stop Stealing Our Cars, set to premiere this Saturday at El Centro Cultural de Mexico in the city's downtown, is an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Mexico As Imagined By the Washington Post

    Flickr user yarhargoat​It gets fatiguing reading the same articles on travel to Mexico that parrot the U.S. State Department over and over again. Precious few of those people have ever actually been to the places they're writing about, but they turn the fear dial up to 11, the result being that Am ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 14, 2011

    The Magical Realist Mexican

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] And why don’t more Mexicans go to museums?

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

    Headline: ACLU Suit Threatens Gang Injunctions, DA Says​Comment by SUEZ: ACLU can go to he!l. Gang banger terrorists need to be eradicated. I work in Old Town Orange and they have ruined more buildings and windows let alone shootings Oh, but they "have rights." I HATE gang bangers. They all need t ... More >>

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Juarez's Children

    Drugs, death and fear in the murder capital of the world

  • Columns

    September 2, 2010

    The Mexican Migra Blues

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Are you a vendido or a Manchurian Mexican?

  • News

    August 12, 2010

    Seized

    Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

  • Culture

    July 22, 2010

    Rodarte's Mexican Muddle

    [Trendzilla] Murder still isn't cute, even when it's art

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    The Crucifixion of Juarez

    On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death

  • Columns

    February 4, 2010

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Is Mexican Pride the Latest Casualty of the Country's Narco-War?

    On the front line of the U.S. war on drugs, a Mexican city bleeds to death

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Heavy Symbolism Steamrollers Comedy in "Casi Divas"

    Yesenia (Daniela Schmidt, left) and Francisca (Maya Zapata) get down.Suppose someone made a comedy based on American Idol (I know, been there, done that with American Dreamz; just work with me, people). Now let's say the parts spoofing Idol were clever, at times hilarious. But then the f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Vicente Fox UCI Visit Draws "Welcoming Committee"

    Photo by Ariel Gutierrez Vivanco/Presidencia de la RepublicaThe "Vicente Fox Welcoming Committee at UCI" won't be bearing flowers, fruit baskets or a key to the university when Mexico's former president visits the campus Wednesday. Fox, who is being hosted by the university's Center for the Study of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Blast from the Past: Another Connection Between Anti-Semitic KPFK Host and La Voz de Aztlan

    Perhaps the best exposé on the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing website La Voz de Aztlan was published in 2002 by the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles. This is where we got the information that sole writer Hector Carreon (last name has Jewish roots) worked in Buena Park. The article hasn't existed online ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 20, 2008

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Jaime Hendrix?

    Perhaps the best exposé on the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing website La Voz de Aztlan was published in 2002 by the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles. This is where we got the information that sole writer Hector Carreon (last name has Jewish roots) worked in Buena Park. The article hasn't existed online ... More >>

  • Music

    April 10, 2008

    Anaheim All-Girl Rock Band Mystery Hangup Esoterically Rock the Dark Side

    Perhaps the best exposé on the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing website La Voz de Aztlan was published in 2002 by the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles. This is where we got the information that sole writer Hector Carreon (last name has Jewish roots) worked in Buena Park. The article hasn't existed online ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 6, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican!®

    "The quickest road to assimilation is a six-figure salary and a blonde from Wellesley."

  • Columns

    June 30, 2005

    'Never Allow Such Degradations to Ever Reoccur Ever'

    "The quickest road to assimilation is a six-figure salary and a blonde from Wellesley."

  • Columns

    February 26, 2004

    Burning Bush-Whacked

    "The quickest road to assimilation is a six-figure salary and a blonde from Wellesley."

  • Culture

    June 19, 2003

    Crossed Out

    "The quickest road to assimilation is a six-figure salary and a blonde from Wellesley."

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