Tag Archives: Latin America

The Mule

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

In 2004, the role of women as mules entered the popular imagination with the release of the film Maria Full of Grace that depicts the life of a young Colombian woman who swallows cocaine and smuggles it into the United … Continue reading →

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The Women of Narco B-Movies

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens is known for its money-sending “chops,” gold and silver vendors, ethnic markets, and great Argentine, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Mexican, and Peruvian restaurants, all conveniently tucked under the 7 trains.  The doorway I sought led up a … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Alien Nation: Queering Altered States

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

Editor’s note: Today’s Freaky Friday brings us again to the psychedelic borderlands, where University of Florida Professor of Women’s Studies and English Tace Hedrick talks about the mushroom trips of Gloria Anzaldúa– and their connections to her queer mestiza cosmology. … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: Exploring the “Secrets Mushroomic”: R. Gordon Wasson in Mexico

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Today’s Freaky Friday brings Points readers the insights of Tace Hedrick, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida and a specialist in 20th-century Latin American literature and culture.  Having written previously on Mestizo … Continue reading →

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Deep Background: Border History as Drugs History

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Points readers who enjoyed Michelle Garcia’s post on the “Myths of Mexico” a couple of weeks ago may be interested in her new documentary short, “Against Mexico: the Making of Heroes and Enemies.” Presented by Latino Public Broadcasting and now … Continue reading →

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Myths of Mexico: The U.S. Media’s Simplistic Depiction of the “Drug War”

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Guest blogging at Points today is Michelle García, journalist, film maker, and the co-founder and director of the Border Mobile Journalism Collective, a citizen journalism video project on the U.S.-Mexico border created in collaboration with the National Black … Continue reading →

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Doing Drug History from a Drug War Zone

Posted on January 20, 2011 by

A Student Murdered One hot morning last May, the El Paso Times brought news that many of us had been dreading—a student from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) had been murdered in the drug-trade violence that has … Continue reading →

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