Yonder Lies It

Author: JulioSueco

  • San Diego’s Weekly Reader wants to meet Julio Sueco

    Ok. Cuando mi sueca y yo decidimos mudarnos para Suecia la oficina postal que queda en la esquina de la calle 33 y Adams en Normal Heights, San Diego, año del 1997, tuvo de repente un sinfin de cajas llenas de libros y otros menesteres que procesar a un destino en una pequeña aldea de…

  • RIP Blogsmexico back online

    Al parecer blogsmexico ha desaparecido ha regresado. Varios sitios de la red están dando evidencias de ello. Aquí­ y aquí­ están los links. En lo particular no me molesta que este servicio este fuera de servicio. Siempre he sospechado que era nada más una fachada del gobierno mexicano para aparentar que habí­a cierta libertad de…

  • Esteril

    I realize the look of the blog is a clear cut absolute synonym for sterility. Blank. Sort of reminds one of the highschool joke about books: teacher, there aren’t any pictures in this book. As far as blogs are concerned this particular one violates all rules for success. There is no entertainment for the Iris.…

  • 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…