“Me preocupa el silencio”/”Silence worries me”

Last week, I had the good fortune to see a presentation given by Ms. Josefina Vazquez Mota, who was the 2012 presidential candidate of the National Action Party in Mexico. Ms. Mota won her party’s primary election last February, winning grassroots support to beat Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Despite an overhaul…

Life in “Murder City”-Part I

Truthout.org has done a probing series looking at U.S. immigration and Mexican border policies. I’m going to attempt to summarize their reports here. According to truthout,  Mexican citizens do not hesitate to name President Calderon, who took office in 2006, a primary perpetrator in the bloodshed of Ciudad Juarez, the infamous “Murder Capital” of the world. But first, it…