Editor’s note: The American news media continues to report the body count in Mexico’s “War on Drugs” at more than 50,000 dead. But Molly Molloy, a researcher at New Mexico State University, tallies more than 100,000 Mexicans killed to wage a war financed and mandated by American authorities and led…
I know I might sound like a gabacho borracho, but I’m really just a gringo trying to make progress toward getting work legally in Mexico, a side of the immigration debate we rarely hear about. Most gringos who move to Mexico are students at UNAM or they are retired people…
Editor’s note: Molly Molloy, border and Latin American specialist at the New Mexico State University Library, has made it her mission to document the number of people killed in Mexico’s wave of violence. Using official government reports as well as press accounts, Molloy created a detailed record of the violence…
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The Arizona Diamondbacks won their fifth game in a row Tuesday night at Chase Field, beating the Colorado Rockies 6-2 behind starting pitcher Joe Saunders’ seven-inning, nine-strikeout performance. The D-backs moved over .500 and stayed within six games of the first-place San Francisco Giants in the National League West and…
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Joshua Reardon was accused of terorizing several women and children at a Phoenix apartment complex Monday, all while he was naked. Yes, another naked man. Authorities say Reardon, 33, flashed his penis in front of two women and two little girls, then broke into a pregnant woman’s apartment and assaulted one…
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