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Guapura 101: How To Make Your Manicure Last Longer

Mary Mata February 15, 2011

Okay ladies, just wanted to give you all some quick tips that I’ve learned from experience help to make your manicure last longer. Maybe you know these already because you’re […]

Perez Prado Meets Beethoven

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Justice For Brisenia Flores Poster From Presente.org

Mary Mata February 14, 2011

Pentagon May Contribute To Gun Flow To México

Mary Mata

Narco News has been reporting on the flow of U.S. military fire power into Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels. Recently they posted a story that gleans […]

Love: Good, Or Bad, For Your Health

Mary Mata

Love can help you deal with stress, or cause you stress, according to two new studies. The Washington Post reports that: Most studies on the health benefits of love have […]

¿Que Onda Güey? It just Slips Off the Tongue

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Here in the US it’s not as much a part of every day exchanges as it’s become in Mexico. When I was a kid in Nuevo Laredo my buddies’ names […]

Crossing the Snake, David Montejano and the Chicano Movement

Mary Mata

by David Montejano from the Texas Observer, where this story was first published. My two major works—Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1936-1986 and its sequel, Quixote’s Soldiers: […]