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After the Battle
Oaxaca Allegre… Oaxaca Hermosa… Oaxaca Cultural… But Oaxaca was dead. Strangled by repression and corruption. And forgotten by the rest of Mexico. By the rest of the world. For those of us who live here the repression hasn’t ended even though nearly a decade has passed since “the Night of Horror” when over 4,000 Mexican […]
Wealth Rules
November 17, 2017
Mexico’s presidents have manipulated the country’s economic policies to create millions of poor citizens and to support monopolies that ensure entrepreneurial wealth. In 1993 Carlos Salinas de Gortari confronted the country’s financial crisis and tumbling peso-to-the-dollar rate by assembling twenty-nine of Mexico’s wealthiest and most successful magnates and asserting that those assembled, being highly successful […]
The Tapestry
June 16, 2017
Immigration: It’s not “a problem”, it’s many individual problems. Definitions intended to be meaningful have lost creditability. Illegals. Indocumentados. Green card holders. Enforcement. Repatriation. The governments of the United States and of Mexico generate statistics ad infinitum but the statistics are as vague as those accumulated to describe a geographical entity like, say, the state […]
Mere Simulation
March 25, 2016
Mexican Education: A Mere Simulation http://newpol.org/content/mexican-education-mere-simulation by Robert Joe Stout March 19, 2016 Like many countries trying to wedge their way into economic prosperity Mexico has affirmed an emphasis on education but in practice has negated its importance. Recently passed constitutional reforms relegate educators to temporary employment controlled by the federal government and private investors […]
Who Can One Believe In?
December 17, 2015
In Hidden Dangers published two years ago I described United States-Mexico relations as incoherent and asked Who then does one believe in? The governments of both countries have relied on propaganda rather than factual analysis of what their programs have failed to achieve. The so-called war on drugs is a prime example. Simultaneously the government […]
Robert Joe Stout Interviewed by Kevin Cooper
October 25, 2015
Kev’s Author Interviews Presents… Robert Joe Stout Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico A Short Bio Author and journalist. Previous books about Mexico include Hidden Dangers, The Blood of the Serpent: Mexican Lives and Why Immigrants Come to America in addition to articles, reports, essays and creative nonfiction in dozens […]
In Mexico Constuction and Embezzlement Go Hand in Hand
July 26, 2015
From Hidden Dangers, Mexico on the Brink of Disaster Throughout Mexico legislators and governors campaign on the merits of past and future highways, bridges, agriculture, and potable water, the federal government includes financing in its budget projections, the money is appropriated, but all too often the projects never are implemented because of incomplete tramites (required […]
Good Guys, Bad Guys, the War on Drugs
May 12, 2015
From Eclectica, 2015 Shortly before 11 a.m. on an oppressively sultry summer morning, half-a-dozen armed members of Mexico’s military shoved their way into a modest middleclass dwelling in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. According to the forty-year-old mother of three they showed no warrants nor gave any explanations. When she protested that they had no right to […]
Behold This Wonderful World!
April 10, 2015
ROBERT JOE STOUT “Behold This Wonderful World!” Mexico is the Middle Ages with a cosmetically redesigned face. The power structure is an oligarchy, not a monarchy or vice-regency, but it operates in the same inept Feudal fashion as its pre-Renaissance predecessors. Most important policy decisions are not made in Mexico City but in Washington, […]
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December 25, 2017
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