'Naz' beats an immigration system slim on second chances
Armed immigration agents woke Nazry Mustakim and his wife, Hope, as dawn broke on March 30, 2011, banging on the door of their North Waco home. Even as they handcuffed...
| 2/22/2012
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Dear Mexican: I've tried and failed to learn the Spanish language for the last two years. During high school and college, I took both Spanish I and Spanish II, but...
| 2/22/2012
Ginobli tweets about Jeremy Lin on Valentine's Day
When Manu Ginobili took to Twitter on Valentine's night, he didn't tweet about the Spurs victory over the stalled Detroit Pistons. Nor did he tweet about his comfort on the...
| 2/22/2012
Saturday Night Satellites: 'Drop City' EP
This local trio explores similar territory as Austin’s Black Angels,
mining sweltering neo-psych with raw garage presence.
| 2/19/2012
Texas fracking critics tour the Eagle Ford as complaints of contamination surface
Calvin Tillman set out on his weekend tour across South Texas hoping to alert area landowners about the dark side of the growing oil shale boom. Beginning at a Laredo forum packed with local farmers, environmental activists, and industry reps, Tillman worked his way northeast from the Rio Grande, crossing a region teeming with drilling rigs.
| 6/22/2011
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Dear Mexican: I've tried and failed to learn the Spanish language for the last two years. During high school and college, I took both Spanish I and Spanish II, but...
| 2/22/2012
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Dear Mexican: This question was inspired by the recent video you did on the Republicanos and the Latina/o vote. What's your opinion of Cuban-American and Tea Party cariñito Marco Rubio?
| 2/15/2012
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Dear Mexican: My family for six generations have been born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. Everyone speaks Spanish most of the time. Right now, almost every Republican in the state is...
| 2/8/2012
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Dear Mexican: My cousin had put a picture on Facebook that said, "I will not be forced to learn a foreign language to accommodate illegals in my country."
| 2/1/2012
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Dear Mexican: It’s so sad to see your wimpy answers. Your replies scream self-hatred and self-shame for your raza. You’re pathetic! No plan or desire to fix Mexico’s problems. You’re a puto with...
| 1/25/2012
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Dear Readers: I usually save reruns of my columna for when I have to smuggle in the latest cousin from the rancho, but the ascendancy of Republic presidential candidate Mitt Romney...
| 1/18/2012
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Dear Mexican: How come Mexicans don't perform in the Winter Olympics? What — no talent? Or are Mexicans afraid of snow? I'm thinking both.
| 1/11/2012
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Dear Mexican: In my hometown of Playa Larga (Long Beach, California), natives refer to a major avenida in our villa, Junipero Avenue as Juan-a-pear-o.
| 1/4/2012
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Dear Mexican: This is the second rant I’ve felt I had to send to you. I don’t know if readers are allowed “seconds” but here it goes: Much has been said about the...
| 12/14/2011
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Dear Mexican: I read in your book that Mexico is due for a revolution about every 100 years or so. The last one was in the first part of the 20th century and you said they are about ready for another one.
| 12/7/2011
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Special Mexicans are Racist Edición
| 11/30/2011
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Special Mexicans are Racist Edición
| 11/30/2011
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Dear Mexican: Why is Mexico such a dump?
| 11/16/2011
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Dear Mexican: I am an Anglo intruder in New Mexico. When I moved to Albuquerque from Virginia, I fell in love with Mexican culture. I was impressed at what I called "Southwestern hospitality."
| 11/9/2011
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Dear Mexican: These days, using the word "nigger" is considered so offensive that, in its place, we now use the term "n-word."
| 11/2/2011
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Dear Mexican: There's something I'm concerned about, or bothered by. I was born and raised in Mexico, but I've been here for eight years.
| 10/26/2011
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Dear Mexican: Really? You answered "When Should You Use Usted Instead of Tú?" recently over my "Why Won't My Gardener Fuck Me Again If I Demand an HIV Test?"
| 10/19/2011
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Dear Readers: The Mexican doesn't want to take this week off, but has to because it's his mother periódico's Best Of issue and the Mexican is tasked with eating a thousand tacos in the search for the best one in Orange.
| 10/12/2011
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Dear Mexican: I learned Spanish in school as a teen. Then, it seems, because I was young, everybody was an usted.
| 10/5/2011
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Dear Mexican: I am a half-breed, as they say (Mexican father, Anglo mother), and recently I’ve been reading a lot about the drug violence in Mexico.
| 9/21/2011
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Dear Readers: Your faithful Mexican is putting the final touches on his coming magnum opus, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America
| 8/17/2011
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Here is my problem: I was raised in a typical gabacho family.
| 8/10/2011
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Dear Mexican: A few years back when I was in high school...
| 8/3/2011
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Dear Mexican: A few years ago, my girlfriend and I visited the beautiful city of Mérida in the Yucatan. We were surprised to see a sentence in our guidebook warning us to be on the lookout for Mennonites pedaling queso in the mercado. Sure enough, we bumped
| 7/27/2011
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Dear Mexican: Say the immigrant makes a few bucks and goes back to his/her hometown. Think they’ll put up with the shit that prompted them to move in the first place? (How ya’ gonna keep them down on the farm … ).
Putting the Red into Redneck
Dear Gabac
| 7/13/2011
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Dear Mexican: Just suppose that all of the southwestern United States had remained in Mexican hands. Would the Mexicans have done any better with it than they have with the present confines of Mexico?
— Reversible Reconquista?
Dear Gabacho: The gran
| 6/29/2011
¡ASK A MEXICAN! featuring a question from a San Antonio reader
Dear Mexican: I’m new to the San Antonio area and am enjoying exploring the many wonderful aspects of its history and culture. One thing has become incredibly bothersome to me, though: the plight of pet overpopulation
| 6/1/2011
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Dear Mexican: There are many who give lip service to border security. You may or may not be one of them. You may be an open-borders advocate. But for the moment, put on your secure-borders hat and tell us how you would secure the borders if your job depende
| 6/8/2011
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Dear Mexican: What happened to my friend? She is white (Irish — her only aunt was a Catholic nun!), she grew up in Pico Rivera (so most people think she is Mexican with green eyes), she is converting to Judaism, and guess what? All she meets are Mexicans! A
| 5/18/2011