My blog has lain barren for several months now, one of the many victims that fell in the final push towards the completion of my doctoral thesis and preparations for the viva voce examination. Recently, a colleague @americasstudies wrote a piece on her experience as a blogger and the friction that lies, still, in academia […]
BLOWOUT!: Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice. by Mario T. Garcia and Sal Castro Blowout! is the testimonio of American educator and activist Sal Castro. A phrase adapted by a Garfield High School student from a jazz term that means “to be expressive”, Blowout! was heard from tens of thousands of high […]
The Mexican Attorney General’s office uncovered an interesting cache this week in a raid on one of the hideouts of Oscar Nava Valencia aka “El Lobo.” El Lobo is recognised as one of the lead operators of the Milenio cartel, aka “La Familia Michaocana“. According to the Attorney General’s Office Press Release among the cache […]
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