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Cinco de Mayo Cinco de Mayo marks the unlikely victory of 4,000 scrappy Mexican fighters over 8,000 French soldiers on May 5, 1862. Their victory at the Battle of Puebla did not stop the French invasion of Mexico. But it boosted the morale of the Mexican fighters and became a symbol of resistance and national pride, celebrated… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Europe was hurling moral indignation at the migrant crisis America allowed to unfold under a bridge near the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. As it happened, I alluded to Russian mischief in the title to my commentary on that crisis, namely “Er, VP Harris, the Migrants Are Coming, the Migrants Are… Read more.
Anti-immigrant crusaders in the United States scapegoat Mexicans. Never mind that Mexicans provide the cheap labor that is to the US economy what rock cocaine is to a crack head. Likewise, anti-drug crusaders scapegoat Latino drug traffickers. Never mind that Latino drug traffickers are only supplying the US demand that fuels the never-ending War on… Read more.
The portrait of desperation was captured on Monday by the journalist Julia Le Duc, in the hours after Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez drowned with his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, as they tried to cross from Mexico to the United States. The image represents a poignant distillation of the perilous journey hundreds of thousands of migrants face… Read more.
He’s delivering an ugly barbed-wire fence. Oh, and Mexico still ain’t payin’! As three separate migrant caravans slowly made their way north through Mexico on Saturday, newly arrived US troops worked to lay a barbed-wire fence along the Texas side of the Rio Grande. … ‘I saw that beautiful barbed wire going up,’ Trump said… Read more.
At a rally in West Virginia on Saturday night, Trump announced that, while exchanging letters and holding their summit, he and Kim Jong un “fell in love.” Here in part is how he then tried to justify his schoolgirl crush: Now they’ll say, ‘Donald Trump said they fell in love. … so unpresidential.’ … [I]t’s… Read more.
That is, as much as they voted for him to combat violence and corruption. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won Mexico’s presidency in a landslide victory on Sunday, setting the stage for the most left-wing government in the country’s democratic history. … Pledging to eradicate corruption and subdue drug cartels with a less confrontational approach, Lopez… Read more.
The DACA program was formed through executive order by former President Barack Obama in 2012 and allows certain people, called Dreamers, who come to the US illegally as minors to be protected from immediate deportation. Recipients are able to request ‘consideration of deferred action’ for a period of two years which is subject to renewal.… Read more.
No doubt the September kidnapping and alleged murder of 43 students in Iguala, Mexico, was a national tragedy. A tragedy the government compounded last week when it announced the arrest of a local mayor and his wife – who allegedly masterminded the kidnappings, as well as that of several local gang members – who allegedly… Read more.
Anti-immigrant crusaders in the United States scapegoat Mexicans. Never mind that Mexicans provide the cheap labor that is to the US economy what rock cocaine is to a crack head. Likewise, anti-drug crusaders scapegoat Latino drug traffickers. Never mind that Latino drug traffickers are only supplying the US demand that fuels the never-ending war on… Read more.
