Readings: mummified remains in Sonora & more
Mini Sumo Robots from Mexico competed to take 1st, 2nd and 3rd place at the Robogames in San Francisco. Click the image for the full story from Vice.
I finally got our links page up which was always intended as much to benefit my fellow bloggers here, as it is for you – our reader – and for the benefit of lots of unsung hero-bloggers in every corner of Mexico and beyond.
Maybe one of my most favorite of these links is to my own list of stumbles which end up on this page right here – as well as on the list that appears on the lower left of every page of this blog. This, hopefully, can give these posts and entries and news stories a second or third chance at landing in front of the eyes of my bloggers who are always looking for something to write about. Who knows? You might enjoy them too. There is always more than one can possibly blog about.
Most quotable line from this incredible Washington Post article on the Drug War this morning:
In the interview, [Mexican Interior Minister] Gómez Mont said that to ease up now would be to sanction criminal behavior and its corrupting influence on Mexican society.
That should give one pause. It doesn’t though.
In news from better places, a mummified Indian healer woman believed to be of the extinct Opata people of Sonora was discovered in a cave in the Bavispe municipality in Sonora.
Mario Gonzalez Valenzuela, director of Sonora INAH Center informed that the body showed evidence of being tied up, gagged, placed in a mortuary sack and covered with matting as part of a ritual. Vestiges of vegetal fibers, a decorated ceramic bowl and rests (sic) of a cremated infant were found as part of the offering.
He remarked that if confirmed that the burial belongs to the Colonial period, it would be the first evidence of Opata funerary tradition, the largest ethnic group in Sonora during the 17th century.
And archaeologists in Sonora have only begun excavating the river valley that shown such promising results.
Good luck to Miriam in Temixco, Morelos. Click the image for more.
The photos from Miriam’s Blog, The World as I See It – were of course – enough for me.
Anyways, they said to really experience a town or a country is getting to know it from the grounds, by that I mean knowing it through it the normal people, the people that know the city the way it truly is. Not what a tourist is shown, which is the pretty places and fun places.
Likewise, the photos in this Examiner story on Guanajuato made me want to go back and see the way the city truly is, not just the pretty, fun places (which might leave out most of Guanajuato).
Lastly,
If you still haven’t seen the incredible blasting that Rachel Maddow gave to Pat Buchanon last week – well – you should. These are exactly the kind of facts that should be thrown repeatedly in the faces of those maintaining that racism no longer exists.
If you don’t feel like watching the video below, here are some relevant outtakes:
5:49) The idea that only white people built America is a fantasy and it should not have been maintained on this show as fact.
6:00) More than 200,000 black Americans fought for the Union in the Civil War. Thousands even fought for the Confederacy. 1.2 million African Americans served in World War 2 and, yes, they were among those who stormed the beaches of Normandy.
6:11) The Defense Department says that almost 10,000 Mexican Americans fought for the Union during the Civil War. Hundreds of thousands of Hispanics served in the armed forces during World War 2. 12 hispanics were awarded the Medal of Honor. 24 Asian Americans received the Medal of Honor for heroism in World War 2.
The idea that we still have to refute such racist arguments should – alone – prove that the argument that racism no longer exists in the United States. But alas, Pat Buchanon is still on television, Bill Kristol is still on television, Dick Cheney is still not in jail. At least Rachel Maddow is on television.
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