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How To Fight Crime

July 30, 2014

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Excerpts from testimony to a human rights emergency delegation of which I was a member by Ofelia, a young woman apprehended and imprisoned without trial for sedition, destruction of private property and instigating a riot after Mexican soldiers and federal and state police broke up a protest movement in the southern state of Oaxaca:   […]

If I Didn’t Want To Be With You

July 7, 2014

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  PINYON, Spring 2014 February 2, 2007          Sì pues Niko, I was surprised to hear from you. Marìa Salome told me that you won’t be coming to Oaxaca for Easter. She’s afraid you found a new novia there in S.F. or’ve hooked up with one you had before. I tell her to have faith […]

Miss Sally

July 7, 2014

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  “Anything more…you’d like?” I ventured timidly. “Nope.” He pushed his chair away from the table and wiped his hands on his hankie. For a moment he eyed me, that half-scowl, half-grin distorting his dark, long-chinned features; then, without saying anything, he turned and left the house. From the doorway I saw him move with […]