Gancho

I've been paying more attention to non-Mexico topics lately, thanks to The Man, but I did see earlier this week that Leo Zuckermann toss...

Interesting interview here with El Pais . Highlights: P. ¿Cuál es el partido contra el Madrid que más recuerda? R. Recuerdo todos los ...

Will Leitch makes a point that is so obvious that it hardly bears mentioning, yet sadly it is: We have a Today -show culture that covers ...

This was taken from Milenio just a few seconds ago:

The first: this team has 15 points in five games, despite playing really well just twice, and playing outright poorly twice. (The Valencia g...

Alejandro Hope makes that case here . He makes a lot of points worth reading, if you speak Spanish and are in the middle for some technical ...

No Iniesta against Getafe, and Messi starts on the bench. This will be interesting, but something tells they'll pull it out. It just mak...

Mexican Marines captured Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, leader of the Gulf Cartel, in Tampico yesterday. He looks appropriately unhappy, u...

This week, Bajo Reserva published a column on Ebrard's definitive break with AMLO: LO SIGUIÓ durante una década, le pagó con creces e...

Here I examine an unfortunate similarity between the GOP and the AMLO wing of the PRD: Con esto en mente, yo diría que mis preferencias p...

I have a new piece about an interesting new study here : The factors they uncover are not particularly surprising, but though they may ...

Real Madrid's big-spending path to trophies is an easy target for teasing and distaste. There's a lot that's worrisome about i...

Here a couple of pieces of mine from last week on Honduras and El Salvador . I am broadening my horizons ever so gently. And temporarily: h...

Hopefully the Bimbo bread somehow translates into an end of the poor road form. Also, this was a good piece from Michael Cox about Rada...

Leo Zuckermann has a column about the reforms that Peña Nieto will be pursuing, and this portion seems particularly worrying: Todo indica...

Here 's my skeptical take on the Pentagon's efforts to send a Seal team after Chapo Guzmán. Highlights: Lo más importante es que, ...

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this element of the Proceso piece on the Pentagon's plans to send a SEAL team for Chapo, and I...

It's ironic that this is the picture accompanying many of the Van Persie articles this summer, because, my, he is emphatically not a y...

Here are my last two posts from Este País: one responding to Paul Ryan being named to the Romney ticket, another about the middle finger t...

Alexander Netherton has a new column about the growing importance of ego and selfishness in European soccer, which promises a lot because i...

Last year, as Mexico prepared to face off against the US in the Gold Cup final, I wrote : Of course, the defeated opponents named above ...

Alejandro Hope had a post on the rumors of a split between the two principal Zetas bosses earlier this week, which is, as always, worth you...

I met someone from Málaga this summer, and I congratulated him (audibly) on the upward trajectory of his hometown club and myself (silently)...