Steve Wuhs (Redlands): From the Boardroom to the Chamber: Business Interests and Party Politics in Mexico. Insurrectionary Mexico celebrates Black Christmas. Eileen Myles reviews Incantations: Songs, Spells and Images by Mayan Women by Xpetra Ernandes, Xalik Guzman Bakbolom, and Ambar Past. A review of Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global by Alex Khasnabish. An article on gangsters as superstars in Mexico. From A Contracorriente, a review of Mexico, From Mestizo to Multicultural: National Identity and Recent Representations of the Conquest by Carrie Chorba; and a review of The World of Lucha Libre: Secrets, Revelations, and Mexican National Identity by Heather Levi. Can Mexico turn the tide against its powerful drug cartels? Vicente Fox on poverty, paternalism and the lessons he learned as president. A review of The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata: Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century by Samuel Brunk. A review of Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields by Charles Bowden. A review of The Search for the Codex Cardona: On the Trail of a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Treasure by Arnold Bauer. To call Carmen Boullosa a “woman writer” seems like a fair description. Tomas Kellner and Francesco Pipitone on the plague of Mexico's Drug Wars. The ninos run out: A falling birth rate in Mexico, and what it means. It is lucky most Mexicans will never read Ignacio Solares’ classic reconstruction of the US invasion in 1846-47, Yankee Invasion, a novel of Mexico City. The Lerma Santiago River is one of the most contaminated waterways — so why do government officials want people to drink it? A review of Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times. John Murray on why the press declared a cartel win in Juarez (and more).
