A top member of a breakaway Mormon sect was dragged from his home by marauders and killed early Tuesday in a village founded and named for the American families that settled the remote community in the northern Mexican desert. Benjamin LeBaron, 31,...

The peso took a nosedive yesterday (probably temporary)… but this is an excellent opportunity to make contributions to the Mex Files go further… your dollars, Euros, pounds… are a much safer investment here than anywhere else, apparently.

Under a new agreement signed Monday, border crossings between Mexico and the United States should be better scrutinized than before… although we’re told the process (involving more scanning equipment and dogs) should allow the process to...

I’m still on the road, sans laptop, so have to fall back on gathering the news the old fashioned way (dead tree versions, TV and gossiping with taxi drivers). Three or four themes seem to be dominating the national news, but — for right now — no links...

Judith Miller, who — once upon a time — was a journalist, has called upon her extensive background in covering Middle Eastern affairs (she still claims “I was fucking right” to publicize false claims that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction” — giving...

I’ve been haunted by this photo, and am honesty not sure where I found it… or who the lad is.  If he is alive, he’d be pushing 100 today, and the photographer is also a mystery to me.  I’m guessing the photo was taken in northern Mexico by one of...

    I’m not taking a laptop with me to Guadalajara and Mexico City, so posting will be light to non-existent.