Tag Archives: The U.S.A.

Mexican Birth Rate Dropping

Posted on September 24, 2026 by Allan Wall

Mexico has the reputation of having big families. In reality the Mexican birth rate has been dropping for decades. Here’s a chart from the World Bank that shows births per woman in Mexico from 1960 to 2024. In 1960, the … Continue reading →

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PISA Scores: Mexico #61, USA #16, Chinese #1

Posted on September 21, 2026 by Allan Wall

PISA is an acronym for Programme for International Student Assessment, a test battery administered internationally every three years by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), a 38-nation group of which both Mexico and the United States are member … Continue reading →

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Lupita Nyong’o and the Odyssey’s Helen of Troy Casting Controversy

Posted on September 2, 2026 by Allan Wall

The Odyssey movie, directed by Christopher Nolan, is a blockbuster film released in the summer of 2026. (See Nolan’s Odyssey Movie). The film is a cinematic version of an approximately 3,000 year old story made into an epic poem attributed … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture | Tagged Achilles, Agamemnon, Antilochus, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Sr., Britain, Christopher Nolan, Citizenship, Clytemnestra, Eartha Kitt, Guerrero, Helen of Sparta/Troy, Homer, Joseph Fiennes, Kenya, Luo Tribe, Lupita Nyong’o, Memnon, Menelaus, Mexican Citizenship, Michael Jackson, Orson Welles, Taxco, The Odyssey, The Odyssey Movie, The U.S.A., U.S. Citizenship | Leave a comment

Mexico Projected to Have World’s 12th-Biggest Economy in 2030

Posted on September 1, 2026 by Allan Wall

Visual Capitalist recently published an article containing projections for the world and national economies in 2030, just four years hence. It’s entitled The Global Economy in 2030. The article includes a pie chart and a list-type chart. According to the … Continue reading →

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Mexico the #1 Export Recipient of 12 U.S. States

Posted on August 31, 2026 by Allan Wall

The Visual Capitalist website has an interesting map and feature, entitled Mapped: Each U.S. State’s Top Export Partner. Based on 2025 data, it has a map showing the top export partner of each U.S. state. By “top export partner”, it … Continue reading →

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Mexico the #1 Import Source for 8 U.S. States; Mexico Ties with Canada in Delaware

Posted on August 29, 2026 by Allan Wall

The Visual Capitalist website has an interesting map and feature, entitled Mapped: The Top Import Partner of Every U.S. State . Based on 2025 data, it has a map showing the top “import partner” of each U.S. state. By “import … Continue reading →

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Senator Inzunza Not in Detention, Still a Mexican Senator

Posted on August 28, 2026 by Allan Wall

Senator Enrique Inzunza Cazarez is one of the Sinaloa Ten indicted by a U.S. federal court for collusion with the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. In an article on May 20th, 2026, I reported that Senator Inzunza had been … Continue reading →

Posted in Corruption, Crime, Foreign Policy, Politics | Tagged Drug cartels, Enrique Inzunza Cazarez, Los Chapitos, Mexican Senate, Sinaloa, Sinaloa Cartel, The U.S.A. | Leave a comment

Ruben Rocha Returns to the Office of Governor of Sinaloa

Posted on August 22, 2026 by Allan Wall

Ruben Rocha, the Biggest Fish of the Sinaloa Ten, has returned from his leave of absence to his post as governor of Sinaloa. To summarize, near the end of April, a U.S. federal court indicted ten Mexican officials and former … Continue reading →

Posted in Corruption, Crime, Politics | Tagged Drug cartels, Ruben Rocha Moya, Sinaloa Cartel, Sinaloa state, The U.S.A. | Leave a comment

U.S. Citizen Busted at Border for Smuggling Cocaine

Posted on August 19, 2026 by Allan Wall

The Trump administration is fighting the Mexican cartels. But I never hear Trump talk about the massive American contribution to the Mexican cartels. U.S. drug addicts, after all, are the main consumers of the drugs sold by Mexican cartels. That … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Foreign Policy | Tagged American Contribution to Mexican Cartels, Ciudad Acuna, CJNG, Cocaine, Del Rio in Texas, Donald Trump, Drug Smuggling, Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, Rio Grande, Texas, The U.S.A., U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Leave a comment

Maybe Son of AMLO Didn’t Write that Letter to Trump, But AMLO Himself; More on Visa Cancellation

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Allan Wall

Andres Manuel Lopez Beltran, known as “Andy”, son of former president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, recently had his U.S. visa revoked and wrote an angry letter to President Trump. [See Son of AMLO has U.S. Visa Revoked; Writes Angry Public … Continue reading →

Posted in Corruption, Crime, Foreign Policy, Politics | Tagged AMLO, Andres Manuel Lopez Beltran, CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación), Donald Trump, Fuel Theft (Huachicol), Gonzalo Lopez Beltran, Jose Ramon Lopez Beltran, Mexico Daily Post, The U.S.A., US Visas | Leave a comment