The Mex Files

26 March 1937, Spain. Rafa, etc. 2024…

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/26/those-who-do-not-learn/

Oacacan Senator Adolfo Gómez Hernándezm who sits on the Agriculture and Rural Development committe, knows we really, really need rain. Something we can’t do anything about, although I suppose...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/25/we-need-the-rain-stop-squaking/

Sorry about the double posting (with slight variations) today… I’m still screwing up some wordpress functions and had some “issues” with the computer last night when copying and pasting.

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/22/oops-5/

Today is Nabokov’s 126th birthday. In honor of one of the best American writers in Russian (or, Russian writers in American, or just plain writers ever) … a repost from 2013: Lolita, light of...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/22/a-birthday-celebration-vladimir-nabokovs-possible-mexican-connection/

Today is the 126th anniversary of Vladimir Nabokov’s birth. His best know, and most notorious, novel being Lolita, a repost from June 2013: Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins: A Mexica...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/22/nabokov-and-mexico-maybe/

The “youth vote”: Rebels with a cause The floundering Gálvez campaign: Dead woman walking? The Embassy siege and the election: The debate eclipsed by the Embassy siege

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/20/on-the-substack-site-of-late/

What unites investment publications, Electric cars, the French Foreign Legion, a Communist, T.S. Eliot, and the American Legion? A dive down rabbit-hole of a Mexican footnote. While only slightly...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/17/the-long-and-winding-road-alan-seeger-and-family/

Although there are two Mexfiles… this one (mexfiles.net) meant for history and culture discussions and Mexfile.substack.com for political matters, its impossible especially in Mexico of not tal...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/10/30487/

Nellie Bly, the 19th century sometime muckraker, sometime travel writer, published her “Six Months in Mexico”, in 1886, an account of her (well, duh…) six months poking around the country a...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/07/to-see-outselves-as-others-see-us/

Mexfiles has recommended Mauricio Tenorrio-Trillo’s discursive, rambling, and thoroughly documented social history of Mexico City (“I Speak of the City”) before. Although his focus is the c...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/04/02/mexico-city-going-to-the-dogs-and-cats-goats-birds/

An article in Wednsday’s Jornada, (“Etnias nayaritas se oponen a que las farmacéuticas comercialicen el peoyte”) reported on the indigenous communities in Nayarit which express objections ...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/03/29/he-wants-an-old-drug/

Politics is over on substack, but there was an article in the news today about presidential candidate Xochiltl Galvéz saying she would not live in the Palacio Nacional, but would prefer to move ...

https://mexfiles.net/2024/03/25/oh-give-me-a-home/