Bandit Nation by Chris Frazer explores the cultural history of outlaws in Mexico and their role in shaping national identity
Categories: Mexico, North America
Category: Mexico
Mexico’s dirty secret
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Alberto Ulloa Bornemann recounts his imprisonment and torture during Mexico’s ‘dirty war’ of the 1970s Surviving Mexico’s Dirty War: A Political Prisoner’s MemoirAlberto Ulloa Bornemann, edited and translated by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt2007, Temple University Press218 pages Reviewed by Gavin O’Toole IN JULY 2007 guerrillas blew up a pipeline in central Mexico…
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Not Japan, but still sumo wrestling
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Battle in Heaven is a sweaty foray under the sheets of an ugly, morally corrupt and class-ridden society
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Mush with a message
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Sueño is a mushy soap-style sideways glance at the lives and hopes of Mexican immigrants in the US
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
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Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
A juicy snack
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They may not be ripe… but the plums served up in Enrique Serna’s Fruta Verde are certainly tempting
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Weed between the lines
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Temporada de patos is a witty trip into the strange hopes and dreams of teenagers left home alone on a Sunday
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Blood, sweat… and tears
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Guillermo del Toro’s classic Mexican horror debut, Cronos, will bite you where it hurts
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From nationalism to neoliberalism
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Stalled growth put Mexico’s neoliberal conversion back on the political agenda in the run up to the latest presidential elections
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Warrior and servant
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Aztec Warrior AD 1325-1521 provides rich insights into the life of a boy who becomes a warrior in the great imperial army of Moctezuma
Categories: Mexico, North America