The truth about Mexico (and the Mex Files)

I’ve slightly changed my sidebar, adding a section for “Cooperative Sites”.  I sort of agonized (for maybe 15 seconds) about what to call the collection of links.

I didn’t want to come off as pretentious and claim I was writing regularly for any of these sites, or even a “contributing writer” on any regular basis.  I’m not.  These are sites that  sometimes find posts from The Mex Files fit their editorial needs.  But, I can’t commit to writing for them on any regular basis, or with any consistency.  I don’t always have the luxury of writing as well as I’d like, or the energy to edit myself into grammatical coherence, so if another site finds what I’ve produced sometimes useful, I’m flattered.

I’m flattered when one of the other independent sites (and … properly attributed… the biggies) link to me, and a few do regularly, but what I mean by “Collaborative Sites” are  those sites that collect posts sharing an ideology (like Truth About Mexico and Pro-Migrant), a scholarly interest (like  Mexico Institute),  or — like Global Voices or World Focus — are  not-for-profit international news sites that depend on collaboration from  from independent sites like Mex Files throughout the world.

In putting together my list of “Collaborative Sites” I added one.  “The Truth About Mexico”

want[s]… to serve as a balance for the news we are hearing from the North, and to provide you, the reader, the opportunity to learn a little more about what life Mexico is REALLY like.

Something the Mex Files tries to do now and again, too.