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Behind the Mexican drug war
Editors note: The killings of three U.S. consular employees in Ciudad Juarez has brought increased press attention in this country to the violence of Mexico’s drug gangs. Our Mexico City...
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John Ross: The damaged spine of America
I am on a low-rent book tour with my new cult classic El Monstruo - Dread & Redemption In Mexico City. For the next three months, I will stumble across this land from sea to stinking sea probing...
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Ross on the road: The great white north
Editors note: Guardian correspondent John Ross is traveling across the nation pomoting his new book, El Monstruo -- Dread & Redemption in Mexico City, and is sending us dispatches from the road....
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John Ross: Time travelling down the Mississippi
Editors note: John Ross is wandering the country on a book tour, sharing his observations of Obamalandia, 2010. You can read his previous dispatches here and here I. Role models When I finally made...
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John Ross: To stop is to die
Editors note: John Ross is finishing up a book tour across the United States, and sending us his impressions of Obamalandia. You can read some of his previous posts here, here and here. I....
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The feminization of Mexican agriculture
SANTA CRUZ TANACO (May 20th) - When I first settled into this tiny Purepecha Indian village high in the Meseta Tarasca of west-central Michoacan state 50 years ago, few women tilled the land. Tending...
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In Mexico, turtles and oil privatization
MEXICO CITY (June 3rd) -- The turtles of Caribbean Mexico are an ancient race. Their ancestors paddled with dinosaurs and prehistoric fish. Kemp's Ridley turtles were burying their eggs in Gulf Coast...
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Bread and Circuses: Mexico and the World Cup
MEXICO CITY (June 11th) -- The Caliente Sports Book down the street is buzzing with betters studying dog and horse races, Major League Baseball, even golf, on the multiple screens. Of particular...
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Torture: The new national pastime
SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 6th) -- The return of liver cancer has afforded me an unexpected opportunity to contemplate the National Pastime. As I emerged from a bout of chemotherapy in late September, the...
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SF Stories: John Ross
RONCO Y DULCEGUARDIAN ILLUSTRATION BY LISA CONGDONRelated: San Francisco Stories: The literary life46TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL Coming out of the undergroundOn the BART escalator,The Mission skyIs washed...
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