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Guatemalan Mayor Declares Internet Access A Human Right
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog It was only a matter of time. The mayor of an Indian town in Guatemala has declared Internet access to be a human right. Many Indian […]
LOS ANGELES: A Legend Of The Raspado
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I spent some time yesterday with a legendary street vendor. Ramiro — don’t know his last name — spent 15 years as a street […]
LOS ANGELES: Oaxacan Marching Band
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I attended the inauguration of the L.A. office of FIOB — Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales (Indigenous Front of Bi-national Organizations), which works to help Indians, […]
TELL YOUR TRUE TALE: Being Saved
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog This week on my storytelling website, Tell Your True Tale, a new story by Angelino writer Julian SeguraCamacho. Check out Being Saved – the story of how […]
DRUGS: Narco Mennonites Arrested Again
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Years ago, I had a run-in with drug-smuggling Mennonites in the area around Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua in Mexico, and wrote about it, and the decay […]
DRUGS: Narco “Canonized”
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I guess it was only a matter of time, but …Nazario Moreno, deceased leader of La Familia Michoacana, the narco-Catholic drug cartel now finding itself […]
LOS ANGELES: Tuba Thefts, Again
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Once again, tuba thieves have struck. This time: Whittier High School. Four sousaphones. Last time, Saturday Night Live did a Weekend Update bit on the phenomenon. Lightheartedness […]
Pena Nieto Background Not Encouraging for Mexico Democracy
By Sam Quinones, A Reporter’s Blog Twelve years after peacefully voting out in a clean election the party that had ruled it as a political monopoly for seven decades, Mexicans […]
Going Home to The Bronx
*I post this because I enjoyed reading it. You won’t find politics here, or any sort of controversy. It’s just a reporter going back to a place he once called […]
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