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Miles and Miles of Texas
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Caught in the Middle
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Mexico...
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Side By Side
In Mexico “¡Ay, Chihuahua!” is an expression of amazement and surprise, and for good reason. Chihuahua, Mexico’s largest state, is a land of extremes, embracing both the scorching desert that bears its...
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How Do You Say “Perestroika” In Spanish?
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The Lost Pyramids
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Mexico is...
View ArticleDown in Del Valle
There is a house in Monterrey that is not what it seems. It’s an ordinary house, at least by the standards of the elite Del Valle neighborhood. Its architectural style is known among upwardly mobile...
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What Really Happened at Waco
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. AUTHOR’S...
View ArticleCan Vicente Fox Save Mexico?
At eleven in the evening on July 2, as radio and television commentators were announcing that the candidate of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), Vicente Fox Quesada, was leading in the race for...
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Taste for Trouble
The story of the rise and fall of Mario Cantú, like the slivers that fall when a cascarón bursts atop one’s head, calls to mind brightly colored bits and pieces of a moment that no longer exists....
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Civil Rites
As a freshman at Texas Tech University in 1963 and 1964, I had an afternoon job in the Student Union print shop, mimeographing various newsletters and bulletins and printing posters for authorized...
View ArticleThe Recount
THE TELEPHONE RANG IN MY MEXICO CITY hotel room at about 10:30 p.m. on July 4. The caller was a young woman I’ve known since she was a child: Aleida Alavez, a city councilwoman representing the Partido...
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Guns, Communists, Outside Agitators: Student Protests Then and Now
A student movement is again brewing in Texas and across the nation. Its detractors charge that participants in March for Our Lives, mostly junior high and high school students, are the pawns of adults...
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The Rise of Mexico’s President-Elect
The men whom Andrés Manuel López Obrador bested in Sunday’s Mexican presidential election—and not only those three—ride in big, black, bulletproof Town Cars. To ward off kidnappers, they often travel...
View ArticleTexas Primer: The Right-angle Pump
Whole regions of Texas, especially the High Plains, would be practically unpopulated were it not for three men—two well drillers and a banker—whose tinkerings gave rise to the modern irrigation system...
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The New Rustlers
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Six feet...
View ArticleTexas Primer: Caprock
Caprock is a cliff of red and tan rock, fifty to one hundred feet high—a geological formation that runs in a 175-mile line through West Texas. The Caprock, like its younger and weaker world-famous...
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The Politics of Armageddon
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Howdy, Son. I’m the Law in This County
Nobody stands as tall as rural sheriffs in Texas. In their communities, they personify the frontier tradition, they stand guard over male values, and despite the fact that nearly everyone would like to...
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Mikey
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. During...
View ArticleHow They Ruined Our Prisons
In the file room of the fifth floor of the federal courthouse in downtown Houston, there’s a sheet of paper that has eclipsed the Texas constitution, the laws of our Legislature, and traditions that...
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Deep in the Heart of Mexico
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Unionbusters
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The Faulty Cure
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The National Tour of Texas
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The Last of the Border Lords
This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. On a...
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