Las Cucarachas' Tails by Jerry Hesser
Personally I don't think I've come across anything quite like Las Cucarachas' Tails. And I should also quickly add that I found it to be an interesting and enjoyable read.
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Introducing Rick Gage: Murder in La Paz and Death Mask of the Jaguar by Murdoch Hughes
With these two thrillers we find ourselves in the world of hard-boiled private eyes - a la Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler - but with a difference. Both stories are squarely set in Mexico. Murdoch Hughes has created a private eye, Rick Gage, who has given up his former career as a detective in Los Angeles to get away from the stress and violence he experienced there and moved to La Paz. However, with these two books, Rick encounters enough stress and violence to fill any number of careers. But he's a tough guy. He can take it.
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The lady is a tramp - an excerpt from the book: Agave Marias
- an excerpt from the book: "Agave Marias - border crossers, boundary breakers." by various authors.
read moreQueretaro: cultural mecca with colonial charm
Writing a newspaper column about the greatness of another country can earn the writer a good deal of mail running the gamut from "Do you know a good dentist in Morelia?" to "My wife and I would like to...
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Never, ever, play poker with a Mexican Jesuit
It was all Molly's idea. Not unusual. After all, everything we do is always Molly's idea. This time, she thought it would be nice to invite a priest over for dinner since we were finally settled in Mor...
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Chickenfiction
CHICKENFICTION
or
How to Spot a Genuine Mexican Chicken
from the Phonies
Another of the "Mulligan Stew" stories.
By Paddy & Molly Mulligan
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Government tourism sites
Mexican officials boast that tourism is one of the country's leading sources of income, so it comes as a surprise to see that so many government tourism websites are either obsolete or bereft of conten...
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Not your usual wedding - a Valentine's Day story
Now that Jocotepec's major annual festival, The Lord of the Mountain is history once again, my thoughts turn to the next important holiday, Valentine's Day, when we celebrate sweethearts and lovers. He...
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Christmas angels - a highway story in Mexico
In this holiday season, I want to share an experience that truly demonstrates the spirit of Christmas. You wouldn't believe the inventiveness, perseverance, kindness and generosity of Mexicans when som...
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My Place Under The Sun - Tlaxco: Part 3
Part II
Mexicans are land conscious. The last revolution was largely about land ownership. Women like to own their own home. They usually start out by buying a lot, or someone gives the...
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A Tijuana Jail
This is another vignette of one of my experiences in Mexico. It is not a complaint or criticism, just an account of brief adventure.
A lot of people would be reluctant to admit that they had spent ...
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Zapotitlan (Land Of The Vultures)
Vidal is my brother-in-law. He and Areceli, his wife, both teach at a rural school where Vidal also is the director. He is a nice guy. He smiles a lot, is generous, and it seems when anyone needs help,...
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Mexico - As I Live And Breathe It
Yesterday I called David M. with Mexico Connect regarding web pages. After he had given me more information than I had bargained for, I asked him if there was anything in particular that he wanted me t...
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How to tell when we're senior
I went to the corner store to get a paper and there was a really handsome young guy behind the counter, a cross between Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt. I couldn't wait to get to the front of the line to t...
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La Caridad Empieza En Casa
( In English: Charity Begins At Home)
Por: Ing. Luis Dumois
Hace unas semanas, el mundo se estremeció con las noticias provenientes de Acteal, Chiapas. Más de cuarenta personas, mujeres y niño...
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Sweet And Sour Times On The Border
Less than 500 metres south of the U.S. border, in front of a ochre-stuccoed shopfront signed 'Café Nueva Asia', a technicolor banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe hangs side by side with a red paper lamp...
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Veracruz for foreigners: an introduction
Updated December, 2009
When we tell people that we go to Mexico often, they always ask "Cancun or Puerto Vallarta?" When we tell them "Veracruz"' they always ask, "Where is that?". The State of Vera...
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I Love Mexico And A Mexican
My love for Mexico began at age 18. My first trip to Mexico was in the company of my grandmother and mother whom I drove down to visit my uncle who was a US Border Patrolman. I had never been in Texas ...
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New York Travels
The first time was in New York, along Seventh Avenue, near the intersection with Broadway, where the streets come together to make a piece of pie. No doubt I was gawking. Might as well have carried a s...
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December in Mazamitla by Ralph Rodriguez with Alan Cogan
December 12th is a very important Catholic holiday in Mexico. It's the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Mazamitla is a very small mountain town in Jalisco that celebrates the Virgin's feast day an annual nine-day festival. The final days, we were told, are the best.
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Nothing to Declare by Mary Morris
Mary Morris is an intrepid and courageous lady. She was living in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, in the Mexican part of town, when she decided to take off on her exploration of Central America. The trip took her to countries such as Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras and San Salvador. Just about all of the transit was on local buses and very little of it seemed to be very tightly planned. Most of the time she seemed to be traveling the back roads.
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The Best of San Miguel de Allende 2005 by Joseph Harmes
Here's a guidebook with a very definite difference. It doesn't just set out in the usual way to give you a rundown on the community and make suggestions on what to do and where to go. Rather, Joseph Harmes, has put together a rather incredible list of 'bests' - some 126 pages of them in fact - to be found in San Miguel de Allende. These range, alphabetically, from Best Art Displays to where to find the Best Yogurt. In between you can mull over several hundred "bests", from Best Views to Best Dance Classes; from Best Tennis Courts to Best Places to Take Out-of-Towners; from Best Parks to Best Hidden Attractions; from Best Tortillas to Best Ways to Avoid Travellers Diarrhea… and so on.
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My Chihuahua cousins
As a child, I had heard some stories about my ancestors, in particular, about clashes between Pancho Villa and a distant relative, something about someone "being strung up by their thumbs". However, as...
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Just south of the medical border
Just South of the Medical Border
© 2005 Bruce K. Stampley,PhD
World Traveler, Pilot,Writer,
Scientist, JunkYard Philospher,
Lover of Boats and Beer
It's just a sho...
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The Return Fourteen
There is the most yellow of yellow butterflies stuck under our windshield wiper. A piece of the sun, moving with us towards the border, flapping in the wind. Journal, June 16
Xilitl...
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