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Felipe Calderon

  • Columns

    July 27, 2006

    !Ask a Mexican!

    'Whats with ALL the drama?'

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    Is The Mexican Consulate Crumbling Under New Leadership?

    For months we've had a sneaking suspicion that the new Mexican consul in Santa Ana was working hard to transform the consulate from the effective, outreach-heavy post it once was under wildly popular former consul Luis Miguel Ortiz Haro to a mere prop of elitist Mexican puffery. Many have whispered ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Santa Ana Mexican Consulate Subject of Protests in Mexico City

    Supporters of longtime Santa Ana Mexican consulate employees who say they were fired without cause last month by a newly politicized consular team which some have accused of favoritism and elitism, protested in front of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores) i ... 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 >>

  • News

    February 19, 2009

    Orange County's Mexican Consul, Carlos Rodriguez y Quezada, Sparks Protests, Burns Bridges

    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 >>

  • Columns

    February 5, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Demand-Side Economics? ¡Correcto!

    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 >>

  • Columns

    October 29, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Do Mexicans Think It Sucks to Be Salvadoran?

    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 >>

  • Columns

    April 1, 2010

    ¿Ask a Minuteman?

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] In honor of April Fools' Day, Jim Gilchrist puts on the sombrero and bandoliers this week

  • Music

    April 29, 2010

    NarcoTunes

    In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this is your Mexican regional music on drugs

  • 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

  • News

    August 26, 2010

    Asylum Denied

    Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

  • News

    September 9, 2010

    Juarez's Children

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

  • News

    December 23, 2010

    Return to Sender

    What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    8 Murders a Day, Opening Friday, Explores "Greatest Human-Rights Disaster in the World Today"

    ​A documentary opening Friday in Fullerton explores the drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon took office in December, 2006.8 Murders a Day focuses mostly on Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital of the world or, as producer-director Charlie Minn's puts it, "the greatest hum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Six Presidential Encounters with Mexican Food, Ranked from Best to Worst

    The only president that matters today...​So today is Cinco de Mayo blah blah blah blah. But instead of offering you places to drinko, your humble scribe likes learnin' people stuff, you know, the more arcane the better. So what more-random topic than a quick overview of American presidents and the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Legalize Pot, Say Geniuses at Global Commission on Drug Policy

    ​The Los Angeles Times, and just about every other newspaper that covers world news, is reporting today that the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an influential think-tank made up of world leaders, has just issued a report calling the war on drugs "a costly failure" and calling on the United Stat ... More >>

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