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Summer Times In Chiques…

Luis Moreno | June 26, 2009

It has been a busy summer; I have been to archives and libraries in East Lansing, MI, Detroit, MI, Chicago, IL, Northridge, CA, Ventura, CA, and Oxnard, CA. And I have collected new sources for my dissertation project, “Labor, Migration, and Activism: A History of Mexican Workers on the Oxnard Plain, 1930-1975.” Right now, I’m [...]

As Mexican Election Looms, Calederon Presses Drug War on Opposition Strongholds: Politics as Drugs / Drugs as Politics

Luis Moreno | June 12, 2009

By JOHN ROSS Despite a raging war against homegrown drug cartels, politics may well be Mexico’s most dangerous drug. Addicted to authority, Mexican politicos crave more and more power and are disposed to obtain same by any means necessary. Conversely, the powerless, who are legion, crave drugs to assuage their condition. In three years of [...]