Haciendas in Guanajuato: Big Farming in Mexican History
Today I took a morning off work to explore. I live in Guanajuato, Mexico which was for hundreds of years one of the richest silver mining towns in the world.…
Read moreDesperately Seeking Authenticity
I finally got around to scanning and posting an article called desperately seeking authenticity that I published in the Los Angeles Times on 9 December 2001. It was a lot…
Read moreCorn (Maize) Production and Importation in Contemporary Mexico
So much of food politics swirls around corn at the moment: denunciations of corn as the cause of growing obesity or the poster child for agribusiness; the problems of CM…
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