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".
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. …
Los Mochis Driving across the Mexican state of Sinaloa, no matter you’re preconceived impressions, especially from Culiacan to Los Mochis, you feel like you’re in something close to the breadbasket of Mexico. Hectares after hectares of corn, frijoles, and garbanzos. Is this Bakersfield, California or is this Los Mochis, Sinaloa? El Chapo and the cartel …
Mazatlán Mi companera follows Twitter largely for the laughs, although she sometimes finds pearls among the swine, as the saying went. Today, she read me one from a wag that said, “Why did Elon Must buy Southwest Airlines without anybody knowing it?” Not only is that funny, even if it’s a form of gallows humor, …