News and analysis from the Texas-Mexico region.
Monthly Archive for December, 2011
Presidential politics are well under way in Mexico, especially since last Sunday when “officially” presidential hopefuls could start campaigning. It’s important to remember both the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, basically skipped the primaries and are tacking the road to the presidential palace of Los Pinos with their unity candidates: Enrique […] [Read More]
If the world of narcos isn’t murky enough, recent dueling banners, called narcomantas, bearing purported messages from the Zetas drug cartel show how bizarre their propaganda methods can be. Early this month Mexican news media and websites that follow the cartels reported about a manta supposedly bearing an address from Miguel “el 40” Treviño Morales, […] [Read More]