Mexico’s Wikileaks Cables: Drugs, Intelligence, Venezuela, Human Rights

I wanted to post this story about Mexico’s Wikileaks cables as a sort of repository for the info I could find on the subject. Of course Mexico hasn’t been the […]

The Houston Chronicle posted a very good piece about the infamous virtual fence along the US-Mexico border. The fence is at the heart of many political issues and mine fields, […]

Ceci Bastida is the former singer from Tijuana No! which, if you’re like me, you loved. She just came out with an album called “Veo La Marea” and it’s pretty […]

President Barack Obama, the “liberal, socialist, communist” one, is upping the ante on his undocumented worker crackdown. Funny, doesn’t sound all that liberal when you say it that way. The […]

Colombian and Venezuelan beauty queens are being “imported” to Mexico as novias, or girlfriends, for narcos, or drug dealers. This comes from a story by McClatchy, which outlines a handful […]

¡Hijole! This is the stuff telenovelas are made of! San Diego-area Border Patrol agent Marcos Gerardo Manzano Jr., 26, allowed his father — Marcos Gerardo Manzano Sr., 46, who had […]

According to some Mexican reports, the death tally in Mexico that has followed President Felipe Calderón’s “drug war” begun in 2006 may surpass 50,000. This article says the total from 2008 […]

Man, when you hear Chente sing like this, I think even my abuelita gets excited! (Incidentally, she does have a photo with him from like the 70s or something and […]

According to Mexico’s attorney general there were 12,456 murders in his country from January to November of 2010. That’s more than 1000 a month, mostly done with firearms, mostly dealing […]

In a feel good story by The Washington Post, we learn that lucha libre wrestlers in the Washington, D.C. area have purposefully left out narcocultura from their repertoire. The story […]