"Cronicas desde el Pais vecino" (Chronicles from the country next door) is a collection of short chronicles published in Mexican newspapers in the late 1990s by Luis Arturo Ramos. The essays all illustrate the viewpoint of a Mexican citizen as he perceives everyday life in the United States. Most of them reflect the past or present history of the U.S. As 1990s commentary, it deals explicitly with frontier issues, and with neo-liberal policies that affect both Mexico and the United States as the 21st century begins. In these nine brief texts Ramos discusses many subjects and comments upon different places and events. The "boundary" quality of these pieces is evident as numerous trips along the frontier are described, and in the choice of the chronicle as genre. The author travels along the border at El Paso and Juarez, la Mesilla, Las Cruces, Oklahoma and Wichita. He also bears witness to Cuauhtemoc Cardenas visit to El Paso, and to Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes' speech at the Univ....

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