Mexico
Teachers Strike in Mexico
by Robert Joe Stout thumbnail photo source CNN As she stepped off a private flight from San Diego, California to Toluca, Mexico on February 26, 2013 Elba Esther Gordillo, the president of Mexico’s largest labor [...]
Interview with Mexican Artist Carlos Alejandro Guevara Requena
Interview by Jirad Saragg Somewhere in America, March 8th, 2013. Here we present an interview with Mexican artist Carlos Alejandro Guevara Requena who at 36 years old has much experience developing his work and taking it [...]
Entrevista a Carlos Alejandro
Entrevista por Jirad Saragg En algún lugar de América 08 de Marzo, 2013 Entrevista al artista mexicano Carlos Alejandro Guevara Requena quien tiene sólo 36 años de edad y una vasta experiencia en las artes, aventurándose [...]
Zapatistas March in Mexico
by Robert Joe Stout Hair braided and decorated with a white gardenia, wicker basket hooked over her left arm, the Oaxaca Trique vendor turned away from the appliance store window through which she’d seen a [...]
Oaxaca Child: I Want To Be Like Them!
by Robert Joe Stout “I remember a little girl that I would see some mornings peering through the schoolyard fence, half-hidden by the climbing vines that had grown up around it. She wasn’t filthy but she [...]
Human Rights Advocates in Mexico
by Robert Joe Stout “And the United States? Why aren’t your do-gooders advocating human rights in Arizona? In the prisons where they put indocumentados?” It’s a question I’m often asked in Oaxaca, Mexico where I live. [...]
The Mexican Telenovela Called Politics
by Robert Joe Stout Despite gruesome massacres, massive poverty that thrusts thousands of jobseekers northward and military confrontations that have made no man’s lands of huge swaths of Mexico’s territory, the country’s outmoded political system creaks [...]
Oaxaca’s Night of Terror
by Robert Joe Stout In the city of Oaxaca,Mexico over half of the thousands sifting in to join the November 25, 2006 Popular Assembly demonstration arrived after the scheduled starting time. Students, indigenas, professors, white collar [...]
The Mexican immigrant from Oxaca
by Robert Joe Stout “There was very little work before. Now there is none.” Omar Cosme tilts his head and smiles in that ingenuous self-deprecating way that many Oaxacans have of expressing their feelings. Stocky [...]
Paradise of Impunity
by Robert Joe Stout Assassinations in Mexico are not confined to criminal organizations. Political protesters, union leaders, journalists and human rights advocates are gunned down in their homes, their cars, their offices. Seldom are their slayers [...]
The Gringo and the Harvest
