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3 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"McCarthy was right."The Internet In a moment of existential despair and self-absorbent angst, I purchased a pack of Mexico Spirit cigarettes today. Not Mexic-an Spirit, Mexic-o Spirit. The first drag was brutal. Clearly, the tobacco was cured i...
1 Jul 2023 17 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”Ephesians 4:29 I am in Mexico for every reason. Good, bad, and everything in between. Beautiful a...
27 Jun 2023 2 minute read 1 comment CodyMac50
Mexico is a country really like no other. Once you cross the Rio Grande, (Rio Bravo as they call it in Mexico) you enter what seems like an alternate reality. You meet some of the poorest begging for a few pesos, or dollars immediately as you walk in...
18 Jun 2023 12 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
1. The Museum Glass of Heaven I went to Juárez, Mexico with a church group in January of 1994. We were there to build a house. By "house" I mean concrete structure that may or may not have had any holes in the floor or walls for plumbing and elect...
15 Jun 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Mexico is sepia, old, and shadowy."Dulce Maria Sauri I'm in the middle of re-watching Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film Traffic, which is better than I remember. It's an interesting snapshot of the time in which it was made. Pre-9/11, pre-2006 Mexic...
30 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic
The ongoing Mexican drug war between various cartels, particularly the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Gènèracion), has escalated in intensity and poses a significant threat to the growing ties between the United States and Mexico....
18 Apr 2023 13 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
My neighbor listens to a lot of old-school U2. He's a hardcore gritty mechanic type who speaks absolutely no English and whose yard is an open-air garage full of trees, prehistoric beercans, and car parts. In fact his gate isn't a gate at all, it's...
11 Apr 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Louie was at my door the next morning. Robin was in his small, red Toyota waiting and we all squeezed in the front seat to the S.F. airport. I didn’t have a passport. They did. But you could leave the country without one, seamlessly and without a...
7 Apr 2023 2 minute read 2 comments CodyMac50
Watching the news as an American, you know the awful side of Mexico. Just recently 4 Americans had decide to go to Mexico for a medical treatment, and two were killed as soon as they crossed the border. The cartel responsible for the attack actually...
20 Mar 2023 2 minute read 2 comments CodyMac50
Over the last 6 months, I have seen drastic moves across-the-board with many things here in Mexico. At first, I was seeing the changes as a way forward for those who suffer and struggle every day to survive. Those most vulnerable, the handicapped, th...
