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Tag Archives: Texas
‘BANG’ Offers a Dark Look at the Human Cost of Mexico’s Drug War
Daniel Peña is not sparing in his assessment of Texas, where farmworkers are poisoned by fertilizer and pesticide, and Mexico, where guessing who will be next to die in the drug wars has become a lottery game. Book review by … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Peña, Drug wars, Harlingen, Mexico, narco traffickers, Rio Grande Valley, Texas
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Leaders and speeches: HHH, LBJ and the COWH
I HAD GREAT plans for this afternoon to do productive things. Instead, I’ve spent most of the afternoon listening to/watching old political speeches on YouTube. I started with Hubert Humphrey’s civil rights speech to the 1948 Democratic Convention and ended … Continue reading
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Tagged civil rights, Great Society, Humphrey, LBJ, Leland Olds, Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, New Deal, politics, Robert Caro, Texas, the South, Trump, voting rights
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The accident, and that v-shaped scar on my mother’s forehead
IN 1951, MY sister Delfina eloped and that summer went with her husband’s family to work in Ohio. “Se la robó,” we would say about our brother-in-law Pedro: he abducted her. That’s how the running away of a young couple was … Continue reading
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Tagged Crystal City, Del Monte, migrant work, migrant workers, Ogden Utah, Ramon Montemayor, Texas
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