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Allyn Hunt
The Political Naiveté Of The 'Apostle Of Freedom' - Francisco I. Madero - Vs. The Harsh Demands Of R
Saturday, 17 November 2007
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'Mexico marks Revolution Day on November 20, the day when Francisco I. Madero called for an uprising in Mexico. But when he slipped into the country on that date, he found only 20 assembled men. Disheartened, he returned to Texas.



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He was a tiny man (five foot-two), with a squeaky voice, educated in Paris and the University of California at Berkeley. Away from his parents' authority he renounced his Catholicism, immersed himself in spiritualism and Eastern philosophy and became a vegetarian. When writing, he would refer to the Bhagavad Gita for pseudonyms, principally Arjuna and Bhima. He also said he communed with his dead brother. For a man who was going into politics, his political thinking was sharply abbreviated by mental preoccupation with stirring spiritualism and seances with his Ouija board.
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Veterans' Day: Adrift In A Kafkaesque Bureaucracy, Often Suffering A New, Invisible Type Of Wound
Saturday, 10 November 2007
It's difficult for anyone with a conscience to candidly, compassionately address Veterans' Day. Washington has addressed the circumstance of United States veterans much like it faced the deployment of the military services in its vaunted and wrong-headed "shock and awe" war on terrorism. That is, with a surfeit of egotism, arrogance and incompetence. And the Joint Chiefs of Staff have poorly represented a true military strategy or the welfare of their men (we speak here of those field officers and, of course, the grunts who do the fighting and dying, not the politicizing and truckling).
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Pemex Oil Rig And Platform Collide, Spewing Oil, Costing 21 Lives, Denting A Shaky National Budget
Saturday, 03 November 2007
The Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil rig collision with a fixed petroleum-extracting platform in the Gulf of Mexico October 23, left 21 workers dead, two missing, and has exposed a flood problems plaguing the government-owned and -run energy monopoly.
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California Fires, Mexican Remittances, A Turbulent Housing And Financial Market Make A Somber Econom
Saturday, 27 October 2007
Some North American residents in Jalisco have Mexican neighbors and friends whose family members are doing a lot of traveling right now.
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