Academically oriented articles or speeches related to current and historical events in Mexico, Central & South America,
The following is a talk I gave to the Cuernavaca expat community for a joint celebration of Canada Day and Independence Day, July 4, 2019. My friends, it is altogether fitting that we should celebrate American independence jointly with Canada Day. The two countries share the longest unmilitarized border in the world. The volume of…
The State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport has a long history of engagement in Study Abroad in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, a celebrated center for teaching Spanish as a second language. In the 1960s, the university offered limited opportunities for student experiences overseas. During his tenure from 1965 to 1981, President Albert W. Brown presided…
After hours of work and over 200 changes, I have published the 2019 edition of my guidebook, CUERNAVACA, A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS & TOURISTS. It has 24,218 words plus maps and photos. Sorry a print edition with so many color photos would be so expensive I would have to print 1000 copies to be able…
WHAT TRUMP NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT MEXICO Seldom has any U.S. election been characterized by so much badmouthing of a friend, ally, and economic partner like Donald Trump’s bashing of Mexico. Our southern neighbors are aghast at the deplorable electoral bombast besmirching their migrants as rapists and criminals and calling for deportations, border walls, revocation…
This post has been revised to reflect the improved State Department advisory for Cuernavaca, Morelos, January 2016. This is an expanded and illustrated version of a paper delivered August 6, 2015, at Universidad Internacional in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, at the 2nd International Congress, Latin America: Tradition & Globalization. Click on the photos to enlarge them. For…
MEXICO’S PRE-COLUMBIAN HERITAGE By James J. Horn, Ph.D Copyright 2003, updated Nov. 2014 [This is a print copy of a lecture to the Cuernavaca Community Cultural Center November 7, 2014. The delay in printing it is due to the need to document it. Lecturers have the benefit of not needing documentation but printing it without…
This is an edited version of a speech to Newcomers, Cuernavaca’s ex-pat community, April 5, and the Tec de Monterrey, April 25, 2013. Additional material and source documentation have been added. It is virtually impossible to discuss Mexican-American diplomacy without talking about “dependency,” and there is no doubt that Mexico is dependent on the United…
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