The Mexico Trucker: Exercising the Privilege of a Working Mind

For the past month or so we’ve been meaning to get around to this — thanking “The Mexico Trucker” for giving us a front page link. Friends like this remind us what the internet is making possible. If you don’t know about “The Mexico Trucker” we’d encourage you to check it out. The following paragraph from “The Mexico Trucker” entry on “The Geopolitics of Dope” is just one example of how a working mind works–gm

“The U.S. border with Mexico has been intermittently turbulent since the U.S. occupation of northern Mexico. The annexation of Texas following its anti-Mexican revolution and the Mexican-American War created a borderland, an area in which the political border is clearly delineated but the cultural and economic borders are less clear and more dynamic. This is the case with many borders, including the U.S.-Canadian one, but the Mexican border has gone through periods of turbulence in the past and is going through one right now.”