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Deborah Esch
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joined 22 February 2011 · 9 posts

Professor at University of Toronto, with previous appointments at Princeton and Stanford Universities. Author of ‘The Brevity of Life’ (2010) and ‘In the Event: Reading Journalism, Reading Theory’ (1999). Currently blogs at besovereign.wordpress.com and microblogs @bsovereign.

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Mexico: U.S. Alleges Iranian Assassination Plot Involving Los Zetas

Latin America13 October 2011

Reports that the U.S. Justice Department charged two men with conspiring with "factions of the Iranian government" to assassinate Saudi Arabia's U.S. ambassador and to bomb the Saudi and Israeli...

Mexico's ‘Train of Death’

Latin America8 August 2011

Thousands of Central American migrants risk their lives to hop on top of moving freight trains going from southern Mexico to northern destinations along the US border. A new documentary...

Mexico: Netizens Put Death of Osama Bin Laden in Context

Latin America4 May 2011

As news of United States Special Forces' targeted killing of Osama Bin Laden was broadcast around the world, netizens in Mexico tweeted and blogged their responses to this signal event...

Mexico: Felipe Calderon's Cabinet on Twitter

Latin America19 April 2011

In mid-April, the government headed by Felipe Calderon announced with much fanfare that every member of the cabinet was now registered on Twitter, and prepared to deal more directly with...

Mexico: Netizens Deploy the “Failed State” Meme

Latin America13 April 2011

The idea of Mexico as an actual or potential "failed state," pending since its introduction into public discourse in 2008 following news of a report to this effect by the...

Mexico: News of US Clandestine Operation Draws “Fast and Furious” Response

Latin America8 April 2011

Mexican netizens take to their blogs and Twitter accounts as an interview with a former head of the ATF (the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) in Mexico...

Mexico: U.S. Drones Gather Intelligence on Drug Cartels

Latin America21 March 2011

A story first reported on March 15 by The New York Times has garnered strong responses from Mexican netizens based at home and abroad. Citing American and Mexican officials, the...

Mexico and Afghanistan Border Conflicts Juxtaposed

Central Asia & Caucasus9 March 2011

Netizens are responding to several reports that juxtapose the violence in the Mexico/US border with the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and its border with Pakistan. Though uncoordinated and apparently disparate,...

Mexico: Subcomandante Marcos on President Calderon's “War from above”

Latin America1 March 2011

On February 14, 2011, the website enlaceZapatista published "About the Wars: A Fragment of the First Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to Don Luis Villoro, beginning the correspondence about Ethics and...