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Today many Catholics in Mexico will celebrate and honor Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Thousands of believers have made their pilgrimage to the Basilica de Guadalupe on the outskirts of Mexico City. It’s a celebration that has mariachis singing the mañanitas to our lady, to traditional dance performances and penance. One of our writers shares the history of Our Lady of Guadalupe Read More
In Mexico — as with much of Latin America — power follows power, and after what must’ve felt like 12 long years, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is back in Los Pinos. Enrique Peña Nieto, the 46-year-old former governor of the state of Mexico, was inaugurated on the first of December amid massive protests both Read More
During all the hullabaloo over President Obama’s reelection, the states of Washington and Colorado legalized pot use — as in, the people of those states can light up for fun. From CBS News: “Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug war have Read More
Tonight marks the last of 2012′s three presidential debates. This last one, which focuses on foreign policy, is being held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, perhaps the most ironic setting for a political debate. Most Americans may feel the urge to tune out of the last debate and return to their regularly scheduled programming. Read More
For as long as I can remember being a boxing fan [1], there’s always been a big fight involving a Mexican/Mexican-American boxer on or around September 16 (México’s Día de la Independencia, in case you didn’t know). It’s no secret that Latino fans are the fuel that powers boxing in this country (big-time promoter Bob Read More
Day 6, and as we left you hanging with yesterday, today before leaving DC, we went on a trek to the Mayan Underworld, care of the Mexican Cultural Institute, and their exhibition, Hina/Jaina: On the Threshold of the Mayan Underworld An extremely important site for the Mayan culture, this man-made island off the coast of Read More
Earlier this month, I covered the results of the Mexican presidential elections wherein Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) seemingly won the election by a landslide — that is until allegations of widespread corruption, electoral manipulation and vote buying began to surface. Identical to his reaction after the 2006 elections, Read More
Many people — Latino and non-Latino alike — tend to frame the illegal immigration crisis in America as a Mexican issue. It’s true that the overwhelming majority of migrants detained at the border are Mexican, but it’s easy to understand why: Mexico shares a 2,000-mile-long border with the United States from the Pacific Coast to Read More
Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico was closely followed by more than just the Mexican people. While Mexican citizens anxiously wonder what awaits them in the next six years with their new leader, the United States government is also bracing itself for a potential shift in foreign policy. Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Read More
About just as many Mexican families are leaving the U.S. as they are coming. A recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that from 2005-2010, roughly 1.4 Mexicans immigrated to the United States, but about the same number of Mexican immigrants (and their U.S.-born children) moved from the United States to Mexico. These numbers Read More