Alone Among the Ghosts
Marcela Valdes : Fiction
Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666, is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state.
2008
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Mexico's Drug Problem--and Ours
Nicholas von Hoffman : Drug Policy/Drug War
Drug-related violence tearing Mexican society apart. Is America next?
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Colombia's Heart of Darkness in NYC--and DC
Bill Weinberg : Colombia
Colombia paramilitary leaders extradited to face stiff US drug charges will dodge accountability for their atrocities. Rights watchers say their victims now have little chance for justice.
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The People vs. Michael Chertoff
Brett Story : Texas
To build a fence on the US border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security seized land without trials or negotiations.
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Right to Strike Imperiled in Cananea
David Bacon : Labor Organizing & Activism
If the Mexican government and Grupo Mexico succeed in smashing a miners' strike, the reverberations will be felt even across the US border.
2007
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Zapatista Code Red
Ten years after the massacre of indigenous people in Chiapas, Zapatistas are reading signs that the Mexican government is poised for another wave of repression.
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Citi's Mexican Cronies
As megabanks seek a subprime bailout, take a lesson from Mexico. Taxpayers of the world, hold on to your wallets.
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Mexico Floods, America Shrugs
Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez : Environment
Massive floods cause widespread devastation; while other nations rush in with aid, Mexico's closest neighbor has barely responded.
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Murder in Monterrey
A labor organizer was beaten to death after exposing exploitative labor practices in the United States and Mexico.
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Bolaño in Mexico
As a young writer in the 1970s, Roberto Bolaño was expected to choose between two rival factions of Mexican poets. He chose both.
2006
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Mad Mel and the Maya
Earl Shorris : Native Americans
Mel Gibson's violent new film Apocalypto exploits Maya culture and perpetuates racist stereotypes.
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Que Pasa en Oaxaca?
A virtual state of siege prevails in Oaxaca, where military police have occupied the central square, clearing barricades and detaining scores of activists.
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Mexican Scramble
A flawed election and Andrés Manuel López Obrador's social mobilization are putting Mexico's feeble democracy at risk.
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In Mexico, a Class War Looms
The confirmation of Felipe Calderón's electoral victory signals the end of Andrés Manuel López Obrador's three-year struggle for the presidency and the beginning of a new phase of organized resistance.
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Angrily Awaiting a Messiah
In Mexico City and beyond, tensions are rising between government security forces and thousands of impoverished supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a restive constituency to which political parties and process are increasingly irrelevant.
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The Smoking Volcano
As election officials in Mexico recount only a handful of contested voting districts in the flawed presidential elections, Andrés Manuel López Obrador walks a tightrope between defiance and keeping a lid on his steamed-up constituents.
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Mexico's Tiger Stirs
A recount of disputed ballots in the contested presidential election is the surest way to strengthen Mexico's fledgling democratic institutions and forestall potential political and social conflagration.
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Mexico's Fractured Electoral Landscape
The disputed presidential election has fractured Mexico's political landscape, pitting leftists against conservatives and the affluent against an indignant Indian and mestizo underclass.
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Disputed Election Raises Tensions in Mexico
Memories of a stolen 1988 election cloud the political landscape, as voters await results of the disputed presidential election.
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Mexico's Labor Rebels
David Bacon : Working Conditions
On July 2, Mexico will choose a new president. Whoever wins will face an ongoing labor movement challenging the neoliberal policies of the past.
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Mexico's Exodus: Blip on the Radar?
Nicholas von Hoffman : Immigration to the US
Declining birthrates in Mexico give the lie to American fears of an influx of immigrants. As birthrates plummet around the world, America's real problem may be a shortage, not a surfeit, of guest workers.
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Dead Souls
Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, written during the cultural renaissance that followed the Mexican Revolution, is a marvel of storytelling and testament to the power of the word.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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