Mar 25
When I first read Octavio Paz’ collection of essays in The Labyrinth of Solitude it awakened in me a need to comprehend my identity as a Mexican. As most people, I used to spend my days wrapped in the cocoon of experiences and the stimulus of my surroundings, as if the world was the same …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2013/03/the-flavor-of-mexican-catholicism-an-ongoing-rebellion/
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2013/01/the-battle-lines-on-immigration-legal-immigrants-need-to-engage/
Jan 28
This morning a bipartisan senate committee, led in part by Senators Chuck Schumer (D), John McCain (R), Dick Durbin (D), Lindsey Graham (R), Robert Menendez (D), Marco Rubio (R), Michael Bennet (D) and Jeff Flake (R) released a statement that they have preliminary support for a senate led immigration reform framework. This initiative comes one …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2013/01/immigration-reform-week-immigrants-stand-up-and-be-noticed/
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2012/07/el-paso-corruption-the-modus-operandi-of-the-corrupters/
Jun 26
The expected win of the PRI’s candidate: Enrique Peña Nieto on Sunday’s election does not signify the end of the Mexican Drug War contrary to armchair pundits. What many columnists have neglected to include in their analysis or have conveniently ignored is that the Mexican Drug War is not a unique phenomenon, it is in …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2012/06/mexican-elections-2012-cartel-strategy-remains-the-same/
May 05
Many individuals in the United States celebrate Cinco de Mayo without really understanding the significance behind the holiday; so I thought I’d write a quick explanation of what the holiday means to Mexicans. Cinco de Mayo is simply Mexico’s notice to the world that no matter how difficult it is Mexico will never again allow …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2012/05/cinco-de-mayo-its-more-than-beer/
Feb 29
As some of you already know and for the edification of those that do not, some of the most significant things that interest me are technology, international intrigue and Mexican geopolitics. So when Anonymous accessed and Wikileaks started publishing internal emails from the private intelligence firm STRATFOR, I just couldn’t wait to get my hands …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2012/02/wikileaks-and-stratfor-mexicanisraelirussiangeorgian-conspiracy-and-mexican-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-uav-oh-and-sexual-shenanigans/
Jun 03
Having grown up in Mexico and spending time in other countries like the United States, among others, invariably the joke about Mexico would always center on the notion that we are nothing more than campesinos taking siestas under the nopal every day. Mexico is much more than that and to help dispel some misconceptions about …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.elpasonews.org/2011/06/it%e2%80%99s-more-than-siestas-a-few-facts-about-mexico/
Jan 29
The Battle Lines on Immigration: Legal Immigrants Need to Engage
Opinion
by Martín Paredes
January 29, 2013
As the discussion about US immigration reform begins to formulate, the initial battle lines are being formed around the expected, traditional ones. From the left to the right there are many special interest groups formulating their strategy to protect their special interests. But where are the documented immigrants? On the conservative right, the immigration reform rhetoric …
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