The Ashes of Puerto Vallarta |
The Ashes of Puerto Vallarta
Mexicans in the Crossfire
On a recent sunny day, tourists and locals on Puerto Vallarta’s ocean front boardwalk, the Malecon, watched intensely as a Mexican navy helicopter buzzed the water carrying out practice maneuvers with a patrol boat. The military machines conducted their exercise minutes after a group of four humpback whales had splashed the same waters for different, […]
Kent Paterson is a freelance journalist who covers the southwestern United States, the border region and Mexico. He is a regular contributor to CounterPunch and the Americas Program.
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