Author: JulioSueco
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Stuff
Ready made blogs seem to make it easier for a lot of bloggers. Gone are the days when the blog masses seemed to spend as much on the blog as they spent writing on their blog. I suppose there was a collective short circuit and many just couldn’t deal with the symbiosis of both being…
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Yucatán 2007
Elections will be held today in the mexican state of Yucatán. I shall briefly discuss some issues of pertinence and what I believe are issues of significance to mexican politics as a whole. Normally state elections in the highly centralized Tenochtitlán don’t get much attention but these elections are being used as a barometer for…
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broken permalinks
Somehow all of my permalinks got extremely fucked up and I had to go under the hood of this contraption to figure out just what in heavens tarnation went awry. I quickly came to the conclusion that it was eons if not eras since I was under there. I had to get the curiosity trinket…
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Mexican military loses
Ever since mexican President Felipe Calderón entered office in Los Pinos, the mexican equivalent of the White House, the mexican military has had more than its share of the limelight. Before Calderón, the military was a topic of dubious temptation because many in mexican society decried the mexican military to be some kind of social…
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Ask a Mexican in the Swedish press
Click on image to enlarge. I could scarcely believe my lying eyes when I landed on the article. ¡Ask a Mexican! By Gustavo Arellano in the Swedish press. I have known of this column since the blogsphere presented it to me some two odd years ago. I had reservations at first but somehow I still…
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Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa
First posted at the Agonist. First and foremost I would like to point out that despite Sean Kelly’s bragging about his Spanish skills there’s still isn’t a México category in the topic section of the dairies. Though I guess one not ought to complain since the label Latin America ought to suffice for more than…
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Ok
thou sayeth I ain’th a Xicano in every stop in your language thou ain’t sayeth thou What is then one to do with the language wiring which spreadeth itself like a posin ivy down my spiral spine. Thou aren’th born in Califas but in Tijuas. ’tis true sayeth I. That Tijuas saw to it fit…
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pelt
None feeleth the goose bumps as they arise e my brown skin as I hear the tunes cheer for America the blessed one whilst mi head gets stoned for questioneing the status quo
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The little migra in every US Xicano
I have always had trouble believing am a Xicano. No matter that the evidence points to the fact that I am just that. This has become even more apparent for me here in Europe. the Nordic corner, isolated from Aztlán. Being away from the motherland has proven a sky that raineth a manna of ideas.…
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Cactus-eating moth threatens favorite Mexican food
Híjole, we must be the only race in the world that is consumed by itself. By Frank Jack Daniel MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A moth with a big appetite that once chomped its way through huge swaths of cacti in Australia has landed in Mexico, where the spiky plant is a favorite food stuff and…
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Gloria Anzaldua has the word
“Before the Chicano and the undocumented worker and the Mexican from the other side can come together, before the Chicano can have unity with Native Americans and other groups, we need to know the history of their struggle and they need to know ours. Our mothers, our sisters, and brothers, the guys who hang out…
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State of the Xicano blogsphere
Well, it seems that the gorge of buddy making in the so called blogostitlán is done and over with. Many of the bloggers that started out as a chain like minded club barely write anymore or stand out as islands these days with no direction in sight. I did the rounds on the links I…