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Kill the Teachers!
It happened abruptly, in southern Mexico: It was five o’clock in the morning. Some people started shouting — they’d gotten warning calls on their cell phones. ‘Get up! Get up! The police are coming!’ I saw flashlights snap on. Then we heard the helicopters. They came in so low their big rotors sent things flying […]
Memorial Service
December 12, 2018
Memorial Service In Mexico Human Rights Advocates Are Assassinated Robert Joe Stout 1. Decision: simple and not Catholic-Evangelical-Zapoteca. No crosses, no artifacts. Food? Yes, well, Bety would approve. Mescal? Why not? It’s Oaxaca. It’s on all the altars of Day of the Dead. If she were here she’d approve. That’s the way she was. Bursting […]
After the Battle
December 25, 2017
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 […]
It Was the Government!
August 8, 2015
Great play has been given to assassinations and lethal confrontations among competing drug cartels in Mexico but among the most the notorious killings are those perpetrated by Mexico’s federal and state governments, sometimes in collusion with criminal organizations. Increased citizen disapproval of police and military involvement in killings and disappearances has triggered greater repression. Only […]
Just released: Monkey Screams
June 6, 2015
FutureCycle Press Publishes Robert Joe Stout’s New Poetry Collection Monkey Screams by Robert Joe Stout is a contender for the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize Poems by Robert Joe Stout PRLog – May 26, 2015 – LEXINGTON, Ky. — FutureCycle Press (www.futurecycle.org) has published Robert Joe Stout’s vivid new collection of poems,Monkey Screams. Through these poems, Stout thrusts the horrors, the idiosyncrasies, […]
Where Gringos Don’t Belong (Excerpt)
June 2, 2015
As María Sal draped one of the shawls over her shoulder Claudi announced, “Okay, cabroncito, your turn,” and pushed towards George the last two unwrapped gifts visible on the table. “Híjole!” he gasped, colors swirling in front of him. Slowly he turned the bright imagist acrylic-on-silk painting for the others to see. It was signed […]
Where Gringos Don’t Belong (excerpt)
May 20, 2015
The woman at the end of the table jerked her head towards the lawyers as though she’d just been slapped. Slightly built, sharp featured, intense, she’d worked for a travel agency in the Centro Historico that George noticed hadn’t reopened since the Night of Horror. “Authorities? Yes. Several of us tried to dodge around the […]
Where Gringos Don’t Belong
April 27, 2015
Excerpt: They forced the whimpering woman to her knees, then lifting were able to get her to stand. She cried out, hurt, and the woman with the tangled hair flung her jacket aside and yanked the short-sleeved sweatshirt she was wearing beneath it over her head and knotted it to form a sling. She slipped […]
Where Gringos Don’t Belong
April 12, 2015
“Amor! They’re attacking..! Kill-..!” Pati’s voice broke off and “No!” she screamed, not to him but to someone around her. Through the receiver he could hear shouts and blasts that sounded like explosions. Again, “No!” and then her voice, briefly, anguished, “They won’t..! They won’t…!” then a scream again, piercing, a laser through his mind. […]
mexicoconamor 
May 24, 2019
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