WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Houston – This is somewhere between a shaggy dog story, a tale of internet hell, or black hole politics. The subject is a visa. The country is India. I’ve hinted at this saga before, but now I’ve gone to Houston to grab the bull by the horns, as the locals used to say in Texas. …
Mexico City I could swear that flying into Mexico City for the first time in five or six years that the sky was clearer, but that might have been a mirage. The brown cloud still hovered over the mountain and volcano sites that surround this great, huge city and traps the inversion even on …
Creel, Mexico The Chepe Express leaves from Los Mochis on an 8 o’clock schedule through Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madere mountains in the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. It’s a comfortable train that sets off with many empty seats but arrives in Creel 10 hours later having filled up along the way. …