Our New Anahuac

Check out the entire El Pueblo issue 20,000 copies strong, or just read the editorial here.    A June 28th report in Bloomberg news confirmed that some of the US largest banks have been helping to finance drug cartels in Mexico and border states.  Bloomberg states:   “Wachovia, it turns out, had made a habit of [...]

A few months ago, a video showing a young black man being beaten to death with plywood in a group fight made national headlines.  Several more Chicago youth-related homicides have made national news.  Some “representatives” are now proposing that the military or the national guard be brought in to the neighborhoods. What has a society [...]

AP reports: US Army soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca arrested for contract kill in Mexican drug cartel murder. U.S. Army soldier and two other men have been charged with capital murder in the contract killing of a midlevel Mexican drug cartel official who was also a U.S. informant. I posted a few days ago regarding the [...]

The effect of US foreign policy has always been to destabilize all other countries, when and if direct control is too costly either financially or politically. This is the only rational policy for any country whose ambition is control and dominance. In the political theory called “zero sum,” “realism,” or “realpolitik,” the idea is that [...]

Two influential, effective and progressive Raza leaders were arrested last week. Alex Sanchez was arrested for apparently consipiracy of murder?, extortion and assault, while Nativo Lopez was arrested for election and voter registration fraud. I first learned about Alex Sanchez’s story on a documentary about a gang called MS-13. Mostly anyone growing up in Houston [...]

  Nationally recognized ‘gang peacemaker’ arrested in gang sweep<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/nationally-recognized-gang-leader-arrested-in-gang-sweep.html> 10:13 AM | June 24, 2009 [image: Sanchez]<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef011571523a5a970b-pi>A nationally recognized anti-gang leader was among those named in a federal indictment targeting several Mara Salvatrucha gang members who authorities said today have been involved in multiple slayings, extortion and assaults. Alex Sanchez, executive director of Homies Unidos [...]