Texas jail commission hasn’t complied with custody death investigation law for 7 years
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 2025
The Texas agency responsible for regulating county jails has failed for years to ensure that all inmate deaths are investigated by independent third-party law enforcement agencies, a key provision of the state’s 2017 Sandra Bland Act.
Fox News host said Dems registered immigrants to vote in Weatherford. ‘None of it is true’
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 2024
“None of it is true,” Lockridge said, adding that the assumption that non-white Texans lined up to get their driver licenses are immigrants or illegal is “kind of racist.”
Search for Mexico’s disappeared more dangerous than ever
Courthouse News, May 2023
“I remember so well the sound of his boots; that’s still right here with me,” she said of the man she deduced to be the leader. They covered her head, so she never saw his face. “When he arrived, everything picked up, lots of movement. There would be noise, then silence.”
Mexico water crisis in spotlight on World Water Day
Courthouse News, March 2023
“The final revolution will not be for money or material goods, it will be for water, and I think it will be worldwide,” Jorge Zapata González said within earshot of the bronze statue of his grandfather, the legendary hero of the Mexican Revolution Emiliano Zapata. “Without water, there is no life.”
López Obrador’s price guarantee program failing Mexico’s small-scale farmersCourthouse News, March 2023
Despite the hope his initiative inspired in the most vulnerable people in Mexico’s agricultural sector, many farmers feel let down after four years that have not looked very different from those under previous administrations.
‘Until we find them’: Families of victims of enforced disappearance march in Mexico City
Courthouse News, August 2022
Many had to force their chants through tears and voices that cracked with the pain of their loss, the toil of their struggle: “Because they took them alive, we want them back alive!”
Honey is one of the most faked foods in the world, and the US government isn’t doing much to fix it
Business Insider, September 2020
The threat goes beyond those little golden bears lining the supermarket shelves.
Space Oddity: Mexican group claims alien base offers hurricane protection
The Guardian, July 2020
“The collective mind is charged with this concept, so it creates a force field of repulsion.”
Traveling for the cure: Tourism will be key to economic recovery for Oaxaca after COVID-19
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA), July 2020
I dreamed of hot chocolate steaming out of hand-painted clay mugs in the cool desert morning and gigantic tamales that spill rich, dark mole when you stab a fork into them.
Eddie Mendoza and Direct Relief Mexico: A model for the new normal
Mexico News Daily, May 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic lays bare those parts of the institutions of both countries rendered ineffective by everything from bureaucracy to political infighting to bruised egos, Eddie’s leadership during the crisis is a shining example of how the public and private sectors could behave and interact in order to get better results.
Court freezes bank accounts of opponents of Nayarit condominium project
Mexico News Daily, February 2020
In late November, he and five other protesters woke to find that they had no access to their personal bank accounts. Without any official notice from a governmental or legal entity, the activists were told by their banks that their accounts had been frozen due to a lawsuit.
Valgur’s ‘Zapandú’ Is a Synth-Pop Odyssey Against Femicide, Sexual Assault & Violence in Mexico
Remezcla, October 2019
But the album isn’t all tragedy. Ultimately, it’s about overcoming it by finding a place for tradition in an ever-globalizing society, one that, according to ‘Infancias Trágicas,’ at once designs and devours those living in it.
Positive Attitude
Silent Auctions Magazine, September 2019 (Scroll to find story)
I’ve been booed.
Turtle egg trade is alive and well in Juchitán, Oaxaca, where officials turn a blind eye
Mexico News Daily, August 2019
Despite a federal ban on the hunting, sale and consumption of sea turtle eggs and meat, the longstanding practice is still tolerated in Juchitán de Zaragoza.
What Cheese Is This?
Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable, May 2019
Instead of the crumbly queso fresco that her family produced, the attempted fix resulted in a gumlike cheese that was sure to be Leobarda’s doom.
The First Tejano Historian
Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable, October 2017
Perhaps he knew he was handing over the reins of Texas history to the Anglo colonizers with their list of mostly mendacious grievances against the Mexican government.
Parallel Planes (poem)
The Texas Observer, July 2017
The sky killed Buddy Holly.
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