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Shelf deporting?

Photo by Mark Lambie/El Paso Times It appears that sleepy Fort Stockton, far, far, far West Texas was the center of a sophisticated smuggling ring, the bulk of the 4000 Pr-Colombian artifacts stolen...

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Isn’t it dangerous?

I live in Sinaloa, so naturally I think it wise to stay away from places known for drugs and firearms.  But I have some family affairs to deal with, so with trepidation, I’m off to the United States....

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United Indig-nations

99-percents of the world, unite… or at least post on your social media pages: Representatives of different social movements and protest groups around the world. from the Arab Spring movement to the...

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Puritans In The Time of Stupidity

In Victoria Australia, Trinity Grammar School senior literature teacher Christopher Bantick has is a problem… based on the complaints of this one school master, the Victoria Council on Education is...

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Coincidence?

  WALMART                                            CALDERÓN ADM. The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico Filed under: Evil-doers, Felipe Calderón, Morditas and bribery,...

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Elba Esther… we hardly knew ye…

Supposedly, Gordillo blew a huge chunk of the 2 billion pesos she allegedly stole on face-lifts. What gave them that idea? Filed under: Crime and Punishment, Education and educators, Elba Esther...

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There’s no place like Rome, there’s no place like Rome…

So, Pope Has-Ben doesn’t get to keep his ruby slippers. He’s got some snazzy Mexican shoes instead. (via Laura Martinez): The Vatican today announced Benedict XVI will lose the Swiss Guard, the papal...

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Everything’s bigger in Texas… including the bullshit

Via Juanita Jean: exas Senior Senator John Cornyn, who has been sissy-whipped by Texas Junior Senator The Amazing Ted and His Bubbling Mouth, has gone all out on them damn illegals.  I mean, if you...

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Reach out and touch-pad someone…

I’m sure it was just out of the kindness of their hearts, or pure patriotism that Telmex “gifted” the Chamber of Deputies with 500 new iPads.    We’re told this has absolutely nothing to do with an...

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How to talk Mexican

Filed under: Humor Tagged: Arizona, bone-headed stupidity, Generic idiots, Snark

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Will Mexicans stomach a Canadian invasion?

Foreign foods of various kinds have been incorporated into Mexican cuisine. While there are obvious exceptions like the cream cheese on a cracker and hunk of dead fish called “sushi” (and last time…...

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Was ist das?

“We do not shout ‘Olè!’, much less eat ‘chile-con-carne’, nor strum guitars, don boots and sombreros and walk shouting through the streets,” say Mexican residents of Berlin.  They have asked their...

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Fracking… with a side of snark

The BEST article I’ve seen on “energy reform”  in Mexico …. and the dubious economics and political maneuvering (and the guy leading the charge) behind it … comes from Lisa Wines at the U.S. political...

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Advice from the State Department

Filed under: Drugs, Gringo(landia), Gun runners Tagged: Snark, Stupid gringos

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This TIME, they went too far…

Via El Deforma (the Mexican equivalent of The Onion): El Deforma would like to express an official statement regarding the recent events and content made public by the American magazine “Time”. El...

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Get over it ???

Although the Roman Catholic clergy is quite a bit older than the general population, it does have retirement plans.  When a Roman Catholic Bishop is 74, he offers his resignation to the Pope, effective...

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What ever happened to “Gracías que no”?

Carlos Brito Gómez, a PRI official in the State of Veracruz is the President of the state party’s “Internal Procedures Commission” which was taking a break from selecting candidates for the upcoming...

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Baby, you can’t drive my car

Hector Robles Peiro, the Presidente Municipal of Zapopan, has come up with a argument against infrastructure maintenance that would do honor to a Tea Partier in the United States.  Asked why streets in...

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Why I don’t live at the beach now

(Apologies to Emma Lazarus)     Not like the bronzed beauties of tour brochures, With well-knits limbs emerging from the sea to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates are planned A host of bars,...

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Eat, drink, and I’ll be contrary

42 percent of Mexicans live below the poverty line (defined as less than 5 US$ per day).  In the State of Yucatan, that percentage is 49%…. which  at least it’s less than half. So, what better place...

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