Instead of shaming others about using straws better to focus attention on the big offenders, the ones who are producing and selling those products.
Opinion
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‘Dirty Jew:’ anti-Semitism on the rise in Mexico and elsewhere
Many Jews who have not suffered anti-Semitism in the past are finding themselves subject to attack. Anti-Semitism is rising globally, and in Mexico too.
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Removal of 58 shade-giving trees raises the ire of a neighborhood
The 80-year-old trees came down to make way for a parking ramp for Mitikah, a luxury development in Colonia Xoco in Benito Juárez.
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It takes a pueblo: family support was key during postpartum depression
There’s a kind of organically emotional and structural support for mothers and children in Mexico that our North American neighbors don’t get to experience.
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Mexico should offer its own apology—to the Chinese-Mexican community
On March 26, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, also known as AMLO, said he had sent a letter to Spanish FULL STORY
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Whistled at, taunted, touched and grabbed: a snarky lesson for cat callers
Harassment sucks, but what sucks more is that so many men don’t seem to realize that it’s something they seriously shouldn’t do.
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Migrants are doing what any one of us would do in their situation
But Mexico suffers from ‘migrant fatigue;’ travelers are disrupting an already-stressed society, not for the purpose of disruption, but out of desperation.
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After a fruitless search for an electrician the author grabs pliers and roll of tape
Much of the wiring looked like multi-colored worms having group sex, a jumble of disorganized wires that can hold exciting surprises for curious intruders.
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Public embarrassment, praise one approach in corruption fight
Combination of humor and publicity that the era of social media has brought make for a potent fusion for encouraging change.
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Driving in Mexico like a video game in which you have only one life
Poor infrastructure, absence of effective transit authority and lack of driving school culture make driving an adventure.
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Aztec gods of construction are smiling on the writer as building begins
All of our truly disruptive demolition has taken place over the past three weeks and real construction has begun.
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If it’s possible to earn more as a beggar, what’s the scandal?
Dirty people with pleading eyes and ragged clothes that make you feel guilty for your state of non-misery are much easier targets of our own angst.
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Sure, there are other pressing matters, but why shouldn’t Spain apologize?
Apologies for things that happened long ago in which the perpetrators were entire countries are not unprecedented.
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Construction begins, and the first challenge is erecting the scaffolding
The noise of rotohammers and the songs of laborers fill our crumbling house with a discordance only experienced during a Mexican construction project.
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National guard another costly institutional reform whose potential is uncertain
The new force is another step closer to taking up arms, but the logic behind its creation and its potential for improving the security remain uncertain.
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A contractor will provide workers (who don’t drink or smoke pot on the job)
The renovation project gets under way with the hiring of a contractor whose only responsibility will be providing workers.
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As falling chunks of concrete threatened to kill the buyers, the deal completed
While we came closer to ownership over 22 months, sizeable concrete pieces of the house were engaged, increasingly, in a losing battle with gravity.
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The continuing saga of construction in Mexico (please, just put a gun to my head)
The author buys a house with a fix-it list of epic proportions and begins the process of trying to find a contractor. That proves to be a challenge.
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No more trust: helping woman in need cost a diamond ring
Expat was happy to be surrounded by wonderful people but that changed when he put his trust in someone.
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Tracking Mexico’s cartels in 2019: turf war clashes will rage on
As cartel balkanization continues, so will expansion into criminal activity unrelated to narcotics, such as extortion, kidnapping and cargo and fuel theft.
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With so much negative publicity, is Lake Chapala paradise or pair o’ dice?
On social media platforms, residents as well as prospective tourists and potential residents are beginning to wonder about their perceived paradise.
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Cantina Etiquette: be confident, self-assured and ready for a vile bathroom
A code of behavior for hardy and intrepid explorers who wish to explore a funky Mexican cantina and stay relatively safe.
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Mexico is bleeding. Can its new president stop the violence?
Of all the challenges facing López Obrador, curbing violence may be the biggest. But one pacification strategy — a truth commission — may have some promise.
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10,000 baby boomers retire every day, and many are coming to Mexico
Mexico is now considered the preferred retirement home for an estimated one million to two million American retirees.
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Fresh lobster was the prize after sharing tequila with a stranger on a dark road
In the 1960s, Baja California was an incredible playground for those adventurous enough to get off the beaten track.