Mexico - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/mexico/?source=rss&aim=mexico en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT Mask hysteria By Kurt Hollander Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/06/swine_flu_masks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/06/swine_flu_masks/index.html?source=rss It doesn't matter if they don't stop swine flu. Mexicans love them anyway. My daughter's father might be the other guy By Cary Tennis Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/09/01/paternity_question/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/09/01/paternity_question/index.html?source=rss I never gave it a second thought until somebody said she looked Czech Your daily corporate swine flu update By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/30/corporate_swine_flu_update/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/30/corporate_swine_flu_update/index.html?source=rss The more we know about what's going on at ground zero of the flu outbreak, the less we know. Hot amnesia babe meets Mexican Mennonites By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/01/08/love_silent/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/01/08/love_silent/index.html?source=rss "Just Another Love Story" is a dazzling, bloody Danish noir; "Silent Light" a prodigious fable of love and faith in an unlikely setting. Not quite Americans By Whitney Joiner Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/06/11/orner/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/06/11/orner/index.html?source=rss Sexual assault, enslavement, no medical care -- Peter Orner, author of an oral history of illegal immigrants, discusses the nightmares experienced by this vulnerable population. Does corporate hog farming breed swine flu? By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/28/smithfield_and_swine_flu/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/04/28/smithfield_and_swine_flu/index.html?source=rss Critics of multinational agribusiness farming practices suggest that Mexico's problems could be a result of overcrowded pigs in unsanitary conditions. Mexico's brisk appetite for climate change clunkers By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/28/nafta_and_used_cars/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/28/nafta_and_used_cars/index.html?source=rss For three years the U.S. sent a torrent of used cars south of the border. Both sides benefited, but the world's atmosphere took a hit Border security, then and now By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/07/16/border_security/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/07/16/border_security/index.html?source=rss A century ago, the U.S. Army attempted to police the U.S.-Mexico border, with mixed success. Force isn't always the right answer A new era of undocumented bond speculators? By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/17/mexican_migrant_bond_speculators/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/17/mexican_migrant_bond_speculators/index.html?source=rss A Mexican politician suggests that migrant workers in the U.S. buy bonds issued by the state oil company, instead of sending their money home to their families How not to prepare for peak oil By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/17/how_not_to_prepare_for_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/17/how_not_to_prepare_for_peak_oil/index.html?source=rss Russia, Nigeria, Mexico: Please open your arms to foreign oil companies so we can pump out your black gold even faster Global news roundup By Lynn Harris Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/30/global_news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/30/global_news/index.html?source=rss Feminists silenced in Iran, making noise in Mexico. A job well done by Tom Tancredo By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/31/tancredo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/31/tancredo/index.html?source=rss The Colorado anti-illegal immigration crusader may have doomed his own party to a generation of irrelevance I'm dressing up as a melting polar ice cap By Bill Maher Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/27/fear/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/10/27/fear/index.html?source=rss Because that's scary. Almost as scary as the possible reelection of the party of the scaremonger in chief. Blackwater's run for the border By Eilene Zimmerman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/23/blackwater_border/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/10/23/blackwater_border/index.html?source=rss The notorious security contractor has plans for a military-style complex near the U.S.-Mexico border. Critics worry the firm's "mercenary soldiers" could join the U.S. Border Patrol. The Seven Commandments of Mexican ethanol By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/28/mexican_ethanol_economics/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/28/mexican_ethanol_economics/index.html?source=rss Follow these rules and you will get social justice, a healthy environment and renewable energy. It's easy! Getting back from Baja By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/24/border_crossing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/09/24/border_crossing/index.html?source=rss Nothing's easier than a short walk across the border. If you're going south. Remembrance of tacos past By Mark Dery Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2007/09/05/taco_bell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2007/09/05/taco_bell/index.html?source=rss I may have grown up to be a foodie, but I still think fondly of Taco Bell and its mushy burritos and fast-food mission facades. The ballad of Ramos and Compean By Alex Koppelman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/09/04/ramos_compean/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/09/04/ramos_compean/index.html?source=rss How the anti-immigration right -- and Lou Dobbs -- turned two rogue Border Patrol agents into heroes and got Congress on their side. U.S. to merge with Mexico and Canada? By Alex Koppelman Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/07/16/jerome_corsi/index.html?source=rss In his new bestseller, Jerome "Swift boat" Corsi explains how immigration will destroy American sovereignty and the "amero" will replace the dollar. The corn rush By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/29/corn_harvest/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/29/corn_harvest/index.html?source=rss New figures show American farmers planting even more corn than was previously estimated. And South American farmers are wasting no time following suit. Hitting a wall on immigration By Walter Shapiro Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/26/immigration/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/26/immigration/index.html?source=rss A weakened President Bush and a narrowly divided Congress may be about to miss the chance to help solve the dilemma of 12 million illegals in America. A border fence with a hole big enough for Mexican trucks By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/20/mexican_trucks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/20/mexican_trucks/index.html?source=rss A globalization paradox: How do you keep terrorists and illegal immigrants out, but let cheap truckers in? Cashing in on extreme poverty By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/13/compartamos/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/06/13/compartamos/index.html?source=rss A Mexican microfinance lender scores big in an IPO. What would Muhammad Yunus think? What does a girl have to do to get excommunicated? By Frances Kissling Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/21/excommunication/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/05/21/excommunication/index.html?source=rss Catholic officials keep threatening to excommunicate pro-choice politicians and activists like me. I think they're bluffing, and canon law is on my side. When the invasive species met the illegal immigrant By Andrew Leonard Wed, 06 May 2009 03:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/10/illegal_invader/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/10/illegal_invader/index.html?source=rss How to simultaneously achieve border control and energy independence, with the help of a "noxious weed"