Yonder Lies It

Author: JulioSueco

  • The Devil and Indifference: Border Youth Views of the Narco

    In the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana, the imprint of the narco is everywhere. A city long dominated by the Arellano-Felix drug cartel, the influence of the illegal narcotics trade permeates business, politics and other aspects of public life. Despite the deployment of the Mexican army in Tijuana’s streets this month, the latest round…

  • Spitting image

    I pride myself in being able to detect other people’s place of origin. My rate of accuracy these days rounds to about 70% and in worst cases a least I get the continent where they from right. It used to be loads better when I lived in good’ol Aztlán. On occasions I can even detect…

  • Imported Cerveza

    This morning I am drawn to a particular memory that I cherish very much. It is its poignancy that made it last in my neurons. The event in question took place last year, 2007, during the month of July. I was off in Tijuana on a vacation that I had long awaited to take. During…

  • in with the new:2008

    Boy, I face my life with little obstacles at all. Either that or am in terrible denial. I am a teacher and I have a job. For the most part, here in Sweden this would just as well be enough but there is the business of that little American worm squirming in my intestines. I…

  • Goodbye to all that: 2008

    It be only befitting I should finish the year by writing my last post in the vernacular. Am in a Xicano mood. So I spiffed up the good old haunt Yonder Lies It. Mind you, it is the only blog that has consistently kept its name since its inception. Lest you’ve forgotten I maintain several…

  • I want candy

    I was walking towards the bus stop. I had decided for a new route and while this new-old routine paved the way for what am about to detail what made it special was a series of incidents, curious ones at that. I had left work a bit too early to rush downhill as I usually…

  • religious kerfuffle

    I believe I just shook the living lights and faith foundations out of a European or Scandinavian as they prefer themselves to be known. I don’t normally like to engage in this sort of intellectual bouts with any human being beside the blank pages that the Internet offer at the disposal of those who are…

  • Haven’t just

    I seem to recall Bartleby, that old Melville character that so baffles many of us in this so called modern world, whenever I cherish the idea of entertaining thoughts on Chicanismo. I feel am so way beyond that that the mere thought entails and automatic I prefer not to. I believe I have lost my…

  • U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation

    I don’t think many mexicans care much about the aid but rather care about were that aid will end up. Many mexicans in my generation have known for years about the crookedness in the upper echelons of our society so it is not surprising that we tend to resist any help from the US. This…

  • brus

    One does after all feel as throwing the towel. I do feel that I am losing it. I never had trouble dealing with two languages. Yet being so far away from the center of gyration that rules my bilingualism has caused an atrophy of sorts. One can not complain after all, it has been little…

  • rantissimus annoyenius

    I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like wordpress. IT makes it difficult for me to save and I find it too troublesome to do anything with it. For example, the tags I use for technorati disappear everytime I edit the post. Perhaps I should learn to wait for the tags until am…

  • parca

    I know that smile will shine upon the lips I once kissed or caressed the moment I caress the calaca. It pleases me to no end to see you satisfied you got the best of this life. Yes, that smile of yours, that repressed smirk, will have its day, it’s gaudy day: when I bite…