Op-Ed! By Maggie Van Ostrand Maya Doomsday I’m sick and tired of hearing disagreements between the U.S.A. and Mexico. First, there’s the emigration thing with fences and coyotes and blustering politicians; second is the drug thing where the U.S. blames Mexico for their own addictive population; and now the U.S. is blaming the Mayas […]
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Editor’s PageGuest Editorial by Fred Mittag “Corruption, Medieval Tribes, And Insurgency” President Obama set his strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at West Point. Obama was methodical and encouraged all views, with Vice President Joe Biden the hero, in my opinion. But the consensus resulted in a flawed decision, and reaction was muy rápido.
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LAUGHING BEACK: Healer & Friend By Duncan Aldric Standing at the threshold of where the water churns and toils to break down, over centuries, the sand that is the edge of the beach that has become my friend and healer, I allow my body to be pulled and pushed, urged and cajoled back and
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A NEW LEASE—on Life! By Judit Rajhathy, B.A., RNCP, D.Ac. Time for Change To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven . . . (ecclasiastes) It is with mixed feelings that I write this month’s column. It is time for change – a change of pace. When
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HOLA TO AJIJIC! By Scott Richards The last plane my wife and I are planning on flying for a very long time, finally landed in Guadalajara from Istanbul three weeks ago delivering us to this enchanting pueblo of Ajijic. Two years, thirty-six flights and almost 100,000 air miles, we find ourselves home. A couple
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B. Traven’s Mexican Enigma By Bill Mesusan Movie director John Huston awoke in his Mexico City hotel room to discover a shadowy figure standing at the foot of his bed. Huston switched on the light to get a closer look at the mysterious stranger. The man handed Huston a business card. It read: “Hal
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ALMOST PREGNANT By Jose Amador Translation by Elizabeth Sellars There’s a place in my mind where I continuously go, and it’s where I keep my memories. The other day, walking among so many, I tripped over one that took me to the decade of the 1950s, when I frisked about like a colt in
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A CHANCE REUNION By Margie Harrell Being an avid walker, I knew I had found my paradise in Ajijic, Mexico with its narrow calles that are more conducive to walking than driving. Each day I would set out on a quest to discover what was around the next corner, never being disappointed at what
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Fashion Tips For 2010 By Joseph Keenan and Mark Sconce Let’s begin with a few observations by Joseph J. Keenan in his seminal work “Breaking Out of Beginner’s Spanish,” University of Texas Press, Austin. “Far be it from me to tell you how to dress on vacation or when prowling the barrio, but do
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A TALE OF 400 PIT BULLS By Thetis Reeves Last July, an unprecedented animal rescue mission took place. In coordinated raids in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Texas and Oklahoma, task forces of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies seized over 400 pit bull terriers and arrested 30 people involved in dog-fighting operations. Most of
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