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The War on Drugs

La guerra contra las drogas

Charles Bowden

Special thanks to the Rothko Chapel for providing us with the permission to cover Charles Bowden´s work. * * * The War on Drugs, the war on the Mexican poor,…

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Borderline: The Epicenter of Violence

Alfredo Corchado

Special thanks to the Rothko Chapel for providing us with the permission to cover Alfredo Corchado´s work. * * * Since December 2006, more than 30,000 people have been killed…

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Searching for a New Sanctuary Movement

Buscando un nuevo Santuario

Daniel Schwartz

Over the past several months, largely provoked by Arizona’s draconian immigration law, SB1070, and slow movement by legislators in Washington D.C., immigrant-rights activists have increasingly turned to various forms of…

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Reconsidering the Mexican Revolution

Reconsideraciones sobre la Revolución Mexicana

John Hart

The delegates to the constitutional convention of 1916-1917 and the political leadership of the nation that emerged at the conclusion of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917 represented a broad cross-section…

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Chile 2010: El terremoto del alma

Marjorie Agosin

En los días de lluvia y neblina, Carmen Carrasco solía encender un pequeño brasero a carbón en su lugar más amado, la cocina. Acomodaba las sillas en un círculo y…

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“And Everything Was There”. On Otto F. Walter´s First Novel The Mute

Robert Leucht

Otto F. Walter’s (1928-1994) debut novel The Mute is one of the most original and aesthetically intriguing novels written in Switzerland during the 1950s. Walter who made himself a name…

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A Third Culture. Literature and Migration

Sergio Troncoso

I grew up on the Mexican-American border of El Paso, Texas, about one kilometer from Mexico, the homeland of my parents who were from Chihuahua. In the barrio, Ysleta, where…

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La travesía del surfista. En torno a Haruki Murakami

Víctor Hugo Vásquez Rentería

…para mí escribir novelas es un reto, escribir cuentos es un placer. H.M. The Portable Murakami En los últimos dos años, Haruki Murakami ha publicado tres volúmenes narrativos: uno, inusual…

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Cuaderno de viaje: Hacia el Orient Express

Margo Glantz

Linett Ridgeway desciende de su Rolls Royce color escarlata, visita su nueva mansión, Malton-Under-Wode, reconstruida a todo lujo en el lugar que antes ocupara la de un arruinado lord inglés.…

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Addiction & Compulsion Body, Mind and Words

José de la Isla

Near the end of a seminar on addictions in San Juan, Puerto Rico, documentary producer Penelope Douglas cut into a presentation to make her point. Wake Forest University Medical School…

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Killing Time

Tedi López Mills

...an atmosphere both dry and misty, tangled, where the cigarette is always set diagonally from that which continuously creates it. FRANCIS PONGE My tobacco smelled of a dark room with…

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De la manía como una estética

Rosa Beltrán

Si, como dice la Odisea, es cierto que el fin de las penalidades humanas es convertirse en libro, no es menos cierto que el proceso de elaboración de un libro…