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Esther Buddenhagen
Veracruz, Mexico
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Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Make Plans to Lessen Immigration
On Saturday, Jim and I watched part of the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as President of Mexico. Dare I say it was relaxing? I supported AMLO pretty strongly. No one can predict the future, but this is a... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2018 at From Xico
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Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Make Plans to Lessen Immigration
On Saturday, Jim and I watched part of the inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as President of Mexico. Dare I say it was relaxing? I supported AMLO pretty strongly. No one can predict the future, but this is a... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2018 at From Xico
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I'M BACK
After not blogging and then for some reason switching to wordpress, I got so frustrated with wordpress that I am returning to typepad and HOPING that it hasn´t changed to much that I can´t figure it out. I do have... Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2018 at From Xico
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More or less what you wanted to know about Hillary´s healthcare proposals' pros and cons
Don McCanne <don@mccanne.org> 10:32 (hace 1 hora) para Quote-of-the-D. MedPage Today March 15, 2016 Clinton's Health Plan Gets Mostly Passing Grades From Policy Experts (Mostly passing, say I, but lukewarm at best) By Joyce Frieden Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2016 at From Xico
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Hillary for President? Yikes, No! Look at Her Foreign Adventures
People, you really ought to look at Hillary's foreign policy as secretary of state before you vote for her. There is a pile of destructive actions (to be polite). The most recent reported on is in Haiti. Before that there... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2016 at From Xico
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Bernie vs. Hillary: Yes Bernie Can
In their usual condescending way, in their Sunday Review, the editors of The New York Times dissed Bernie Sanders and chances he might have to get things done if he were elected president. I wonder just how effective Hillary would... Continue reading
Posted Mar 14, 2016 at From Xico
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Attitudes towards gays and lesbians in Mexico (plus a link to Patheos on why some Catholic officials and Franklin Graham are opposed to buying Girl Scout Cookies)
Consulta Mitovsky does many surveys of life and attitudes in Mexico. Below I´ve translated the recent survey of attudes towards gays and lesbians. Here is the link to the PDF file of the survey. . As usual, I would like... Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2016 at From Xico
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A Melancholy Trip to Barranca Grande
Posted Feb 19, 2016 at From Xico
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More miniscule adventures
Posted Feb 13, 2016 at From Xico
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Ear piercing, car-fixing, not eating pork, and some miscellaneous photos.
Posted Feb 8, 2016 at From Xico
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Coffee Harvest Devastated in Our Colonia by La Roya Fungus
Someone up north commented on facebook that she was envious of our weather right now. Gimme a break, I say. Her weather may be colder outside, but it isn't colder inside, I can guarantee it. I am writing this with... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2016 at From Xico
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Our Christmas in Colonia Úrsulo Galván
I approach Christmas with some trepidation (to say the least). I'm one of the people they talk about who experiences anxiety more than anticipation, and so is my husband. So this year I was surprised by the happiness that enveloped... Continue reading
Posted Dec 27, 2015 at From Xico
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Umm...Better late than never?
Posted Dec 15, 2015 at From Xico
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The longest alfombra...
Posted Dec 11, 2015 at From Xico
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Not Just about Jews in Mexico. Also about Samuel von Basch, the Emperor Maximilian, Mexico during Maximilian's Short-Lived Empire, Jews in Austria in the Nineteenth Century, etc. etc.
I have this pattern I now recognize to my chagrin. A topic grabs my attention, preferably one about Mexico, even better one about our area, and I mean just to read a bit about it, talk to a few people... Continue reading
Posted Nov 14, 2015 at From Xico
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Yitskhok (Isaac) Berliner Z'L as His Granddaughter Remembered Him
On September 20 I put up a post that I started out intending to be about Isaac Berliner, a Mexican Jew, who wrote poetry in Yiddish. Having been struck by a feeling of connection that surprised me, I´m afraid I... Continue reading
Posted Oct 14, 2015 at From Xico
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Buzón Xalapa and Crime
Although we live at the very edge of a village and can just cross the small river at the bottom of our property and be in coffee growing country, we also live very near -- maybe eleven miles -- from... Continue reading
Posted Oct 10, 2015 at From Xico
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Mister Miss Universe: How at Least One Writer in Mexico Sees Donald Trump
A part of Peña Nieto's speech at the UN in which he warned of the dangers of extremist populism made up most of my last post. Today the columnist Raúl Flores Rodríguez comments further on it in Sin Embargo. Flores... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2015 at From Xico
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Mexico´s Enrique Peña Nieto at the United Nations Warns of Populism's Threats
You all must have heard of Ayotzinapa by now. It's been in US papers as well as Mexican ones. It has been one year since the murder and "disappearance" of 43 students from the normal school in Ayotzinapa. The parents... Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2015 at From Xico
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Mexican Jews, Jewish Mexicans, Poetry and Yiddish, and Bronx and Brooklyn Jews
Recently I discovered a Jewish poet named Isaac Berliner who emigrated from Poland to Mexico in 1922. He started out here in Mexico City as a street peddler selling (maybe ironically) saints’ images. He loved Mexico City and the people... Continue reading
Posted Sep 20, 2015 at From Xico
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FYI: Foods that may contain GMOs in Mexico.
Posted Sep 9, 2015 at From Xico
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Some Days of our Lives, Illustrated
Posted Sep 1, 2015 at From Xico
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Following up on my two previous posts, I am...
Following up on my two previous posts, I am posting an excellent TED talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/ben_goldacre_battling_bad_science#t-253777 The topic is how trials are distorted by drug companies and others. Ben Goldacre is a very good (and fast) speaker and will give... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2015 at From Xico
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Scientific thinking: Jim responds
Scientific thinking is really not casual, though you may discover things you want to subject to scientific rigor by casual thinking and observation. My husband who has a much more disciplined mind and is much more comfortable with scientific rigor... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2015 at From Xico
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Science helps us know what we know, know what we don't know and know what we don't know we don't know*
GMOs are the product of biotechnology, but it was the science of biology that made them possible. It is a scientific approach which can help us examine how GMOs work, whether their use should be better controlled,or whether they should... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2015 at From Xico
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