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"If It's So Great There, Why Are They All Coming Here?"
An answer to the most annoying question my fellow Americans ask me about Mexico now that I'm here and loving it
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
An Evening In Mexico City That Changed How I Think About American Loneliness
A dispatch from Mexico City, where an evening that began with a closed door ended in sacred candlelight and song.
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Takes Legal Action Against the United States and Its Private ICE Prison Contractors in Wake of Houston…
She is David. Trump's authoritarian, xenophobic, racist regime is Goliath. Who are you rooting for?
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
"Aren't You Scared To Be In Mexico?"
The answer is no. I wept crossing the border — from relief. A dispatch from Mexico City, a city twice as safe as Albuquerque, and a short history of the…
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
The Explosive Epstein Story About a U.S. Ambassador That Mexican Media Covered But American Media Ignored
The DOJ published a shocking, lurid accusation against a former U.S. ambassador. Mexico's press ran with it. America's English-language press ignored it…
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
The Man Whose Wife Secretly Bought Epstein's Zorro Ranch Now Controls an Economy Larger Than Russia's.
Nobody voted for this.
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
A Emergency Room Visit Last Year in the United States Cost Me $15,000. In Mexico Today, An ER Visit Cost Me $24. Here's What It Was Like.
While I offer all my news writing, investigative journalism and news analysis for free, I am paywalling my new “Diary in Exile” personal essays about…
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Haiti, 1791: The Revolution That Freed Itself
How Nations Revolt — a PUGILIST series
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

June 2026

The Tyranny of "Firsts"
How a United States of America's favorite congratulatory headline erases the rest of human history.
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
What Do You Mean I Can't Find a Breakfast Burrito in Mexico?
On the embarrassing realization that my favorite "Mexican" breakfast food is actually a United States invention, and discovering the next best thing…
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
The Mussolini Playbook In a Texas Courtroom
A federal court has imported the exact legal mechanism Italian fascists used in 1926 to criminalize their opponents. Americans are sleepwalking through…
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Yes, the Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Cell Phone Privacy Today. Here's Why It Doesn't Actually Matter.
(Above: Real footage of liberals celebrating today’s SCOTUS cell phone “win”)
 • Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
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