by Rick Skwiot
October 26, 2010
Books
While Mexico’s present anarchy and violence along the border has cost thousands of lives, it pales in comparison to the horrors the country suffered under dictator Porfirio Diaz a mere 100 years ago, until the Mexican Revolution ousted him. The literal slavery, kidnappings, starvation, rape, torture, repression and peonage of millions of underclass Mexicans at [...]
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by Rick Skwiot
May 28, 2010
China
Though I am most keen on reading literature and writing book reviews, novels, memoirs and such, I also necessarily do journalism and commercial writing work. Luckily, I find much of it interesting in some way. I’m currently working on a magazine article describing the international effort to develop a new Crimes Against Humanity Convention (not [...]
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