Articles tagged with "mexico"
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Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2007-11-15 12:58:20
Day: 9
Up at 8am and yet another tasty bakery breakfast and coffee on the rooftop. One last morning gazing out across the Zacatecas cityscape, ...
Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2007-11-14 12:38:51
Day: 8
Today was one of those days traveling I´ll look back on with fond memories. Not because we saw some jaw dropping ruins or ...
Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2007-11-13 00:11:20
Day: 7
We awoke in the charming colonial city of Zacatecas to the sound of church bells and whistles of birds. Well that´s only ...
Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2007-11-12 19:32:14
Day: 6
Not much to write about today, it was one of those full travel days. The type where you get up early and know ...
Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2007-11-11 19:08:32
Day:5
Why travel? People travel for many reasons and no matter the type of travel you always learn something new or experience something different. ...
Posted on: Tales From the Chicken Bus | 2007-11-10 20:50:25
Day: 4
I had read about several companies that ran buses from U.S. cities down to Mexico, eliminating the need to change buses at the border. ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-11-06 12:07:50
An expat friend in Oaxaca reported November 2:
“La Jornada newspaper says that while trying to set up the memorial events of the battle of Nov ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-11-02 12:11:52
Here's Jill Friedberg again with some insights on the teaching of indigenous children in Oaxaca:
"The demand for rezonification, one of the demands by the teachers ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-11-02 10:10:17
An email from Jill Friedberg...filmmaker and frequent visitor to Oaxaca...on some of the inner workings of the 2006 teacher strike until now:
When there are plantons ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-11-01 10:50:45
You can read a discussion of the sad state of affairs in Oaxaca on the Yahoo Oaxaca Study Action Group discussion site:
An American expat ...
Posted on: Teaching in Mexico | 2007-11-01 05:14:16
Today I celebrate seven years abroad in Mexico. Man, how time flies when you're having fun.
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-26 12:57:37
June 18, 2007
From the Folks Who Brought You Plan Colombia
The Annexation of Mexico
By JOHN ROSS
Mexico City.
Plan Colombia, the $5,000,000,000 drug war boondoggle cooked up in ...
Posted on: Why Go | 2007-10-24 00:01:24
Bayarit, MexicoPhoto by Travis
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-10-23 17:05:03
Ever gotten tired of hearing the mindless jargon of national team coaches and tried to figure out what they´re really saying? I do it all ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-23 09:16:08
During the teacher strike and ensuing rebellion in Oaxaca in 2006, tear gas cannisters dropped out of helicopters and found all over the city were ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-10-21 20:05:12
It seems Sanchez is betting everything on his U-23 based players, not just his Olympic aspirations but also his World Cup dream as well. A ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-21 10:03:04
I refer to the "U.S." instead of "America" in the title because if there is one thing I have learned in the last year it ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-20 15:50:51
Marches in Oaxacas continue to call attention to the occupation of 128 schools by section 59 and the PRIistas, the continuing incarceration of political prisoners ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-20 15:46:45
My friend Max waxed recently about living in Oaxaca City.
"For the life of me, I can't figure out why most Oaxacans aren't deaf. I mean, ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-20 12:43:38
Commemorating the murder of Pánfilo, October 18, 2006
Thousands of chanting members of the education workers' union (SNTE) Section 22 and the APPO marched into ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-10-15 22:47:23
I´m not the only one who doesn´t like Mexico scheduling friendlies with the likes of Guatemala. In a post game show on Mexico´s Televisa Deportes ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-10-15 13:48:42
Marches in Oaxacas continue to call attention to the occupation of 128 schools by section 59 and the PRIistas, the continuing incarceration of political prisoners ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-10-09 19:27:05
Hugo Sanchez has three spots in his U-23 Olympic roster for over-age players and Carlos Salcido isn´t wasting any time campaigning for one of the ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-10-05 16:04:10
Rafa Marquez, Pavel Pardo and Ricardo Osorio are the notable absences from Hugo Sanchez´s squad list for the Nigeria and Guatemala friendlies on the 14 ...
Posted on: Travels 2007 -08 | 2007-10-03 11:15:23
I am ready to go. I leave Calgary Oct 18 on the red eye to Toronto and then on to Mexico City. I ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-09-26 16:38:11
New York Times
September 26, 2007
With Bombings, Mexican Rebels Escalate Their Fight
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. and ANTONIO BETANCOURT
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 25 — The shadowy Marxist ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-09-21 10:15:08
The latest FIFA ranking has Mexico ranked 13th in the world and Sanchez has made it his goal to win the 2008 Olympics, so why ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-09-20 08:30:34
When I was living in Oaxaca during the teacher strike in 2006, people would often speculate about whether the EPR (Popular Revolutionary Army) in Guerrero ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-09-19 05:59:58
Past President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, has written a new book called "Revolution Of Hope. In it Fox found the legal fight over the ...
Posted on: The Laughing Nomad | 2007-09-17 11:52:57
I have been back in the house in Salem Oregon nearly a month now...a house I lived in for 35 years while raising the children...after ...
