I had a “concerned” e-mail from one sometime commentator, worried after reading about the spike in murders here in Mazatlán.
What mass killings did I miss? It took me a while to figure it out. A “music promoter” named Iván López Toledo disappeared from a disco early Saturday morning, reportedly kidnapped along with another [...]
Search Results
Rest in pieces: gross out nota roja and Friday video
4 September 2009 · Leave a Comment
Tags: Country-Western · Mazatlan · Media · Music · Music in English · Nota Rojas (Crime News) · Patsy Cline · Provincia · Sinaloa
Al Gore, Sitting Bull, and the Yale art department
4 November 2007 · 1 Comment
Dan Bischoff, a staff writer for the Newark (New Jersey) Star-Ledger, reviewing El Maestro Francisco Toledo: Art from Oaxaca, 1959-2006, now showing at the Princeton University Art Museum, describes the Zapotec artist as
…a towering personality, esteemed as “El Maestro” not only for his art but for his leadership in the protection of Oaxaca’s political [...]
Tags: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc. · Food and Drink · Franciso Toledo · Human Rights · La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples) · Mexican visual artists · Oaxaca · Oaxaca en luche (2006) · Provincia · Sitting Bull · Zapotecs
Oaxaca update (with an update)
14 October 2007 · Leave a Comment
My topes (moles) in Oaxaca have mixed feelings about Nancy Davis. They generally feel she’s a good reporter, though her political biases shine through even in straight news stories (well, so do mine). And, I tend to take the Oaxaca Study Action Group as a bit flaky, but this “Update Oaxaca” doesn’t [...]
Tags: Crime and Punishment · Drugs · Economy & Business · Human Rights · La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples) · Legal system · Manifestaciones · Mexican Army · Mexican History 1921+ · Military · Oaxaca · Oaxaca en luche (2006) · PRI · Policia · Politica (Mexicana) · Provincia · Real Mexico · Tourism
Migrant rights worker killed
11 April 2007 · 2 Comments
I put off posting this until today, hoping to find out a little more. All U.S. and Mexican sources are basically repreating the same information that was first put out by the AP Mexico City office yesterday just before 2 PM:
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican employee at an organization that fought for the rights of [...]
Tags: Agriculture · Crime and Punishment · Economy & Business · Emigrant labor/remittances · Evil-doers · Gringo(landia) · Human Rights · Indocumentados · Monterrey · Nuevo Leon · Policia · Provincia · Tony Garza (U.S. Ambassador to Mexico)
¡Canallas! (though I think “scumbags” works better)
18 February 2007 · Leave a Comment
Being one of the Heroic Donors, I’m pissed.
Muerte en canasto by Franciso Toledo, Interior by José Luis Cuevas (both limited run lithographs), a pencil drawing by Rafael Coronel and Guillermo Scully’s Sax ”mysteriously disappeared” from the Heroico Cuerpo de Donadores’ storeroom.
We “heroic donors” put up the money for a new firehouse in Colonia Cuauhtémoc… on the site of the [...]
Tags: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc. · Charities · Ciudad de México · Crime and Punishment · Evil-doers · Franciso Toledo · Guillermo Scully · Heroico Cuerpo de Donadores · José Luis Cuevas · La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples) · Rafael Coronel · Real Mexico · Zona Rosa
Whitewash in Oaxaca… and reality bleeds through
20 January 2007 · 3 Comments
Sombrero tip to The Unapologetic Mexican for picking up on this.
Vibrant as the Paint on the Walls
John Ross
The walls of this city of painters have been freshly whitewashed on orders from a much-lampooned governor, the whiteout financed by transnational tourist moguls to promote the illusion that peace has returned to Oaxaca. …there were seven [...]
Tags: Artists, Writers, Philosophers, etc. · Beads and Trinkets · Crime and Punishment · Economy & Business · Folk art · Human Rights · Informal economy · Oaxaca · Oaxaca en luche (2006) · Provincia · Real Mexico · Tourism
Big Mac… attacked… again!
13 November 2006 · Leave a Comment
The teachers’ strikes have been going on for 20 plus years. Ulises Ruiz wasn’t the first Governor to steal an election, and AMLO’s loss wasn’t the first shady presidential election in Mexico. But, what convinced the Oaxacaños they could take on the powers that be? Juchitan famously resisted the State back in the early 90s [...]
Tags: Crime and Punishment · Economy & Business · Food and Drink · Manifestaciones · McDonalds · Oaxaca en luche (2006)
Ulises Ruiz… the Denny Hastert of Mexico?
5 October 2006 · Leave a Comment
… or… I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
No… not that he’s covering up sex crimes (that’d be Enrique Peña, the PRI-governor of the State of Mexico)but that he’s trying to blame his own incompetence on others — or, rather on others who expose his incompetence. Another key ally, PAN congressional leader, Jorge Zermeño, is [...]
Tags: Evil-doers · Gringo(landia) · Oaxaca · Oaxaca en luche (2006) · Politica (Mexicana) · Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
In Oaxaca they hate the gov’nor… now we all did what we could do…
4 October 2006 · Leave a Comment
(Edited 14:30, Wednesday)
Xicanopwr and The Unapologetic Mexican present an excellent backgrounder on Oaxaca. Kelly Arthur Garrett (the “Mexico’s best damn political reporter in English”) with help Justino Miranda in Cuautla, Morelos and Jorge Octavio Ochoa in Oaxaca presents an overview in today’s Mexico City Herald:
Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal told Congress Tuesday that the federal government [...]
Tags: Crime and Punishment · Education and educators · Human Rights · Legal system · Manifestaciones · Media · Oaxaca · Oaxaca en luche (2006) · Organized Labor (Sindicatos) · Policia · Politica (Mexicana) · Provincia · Spin doctors
