V. Groginsky

Latest by V. Groginsky in Chronicles

• Reviews

  April 2005

  Poor Little Victim

  An untimely cold finally gave me a chance to watch The Godfather (I and II)—30 years late, but just in time for fitting juxtapositions. I spent my down time sleeping, reading news about Mexico’s ongoing narco-cartel bloodbath, and reviewing former U.S. Amb.

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• Correspondence

  July 2004

  Portrait of a Failed Society

  To paraphrase one observer of Albanians, “Mexico is not a society with corruption; Mexico is a corrupt society.”

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• Correspondence

  March 2004

  Open Roads to Nowhere

  SLOW TRAFFIC RIGHT LANE. It is a simple concept if you are literate and socially conscious. Consideration for others, however—the idea that you are not alone in the world and that it does not belong exclusively to you—is not an inborn value, but one taught by family and society.

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• Correspondence

  November 2003

  Tangerine Dreams

  Behind the recent headlines here in Mexico of massive peasant protests, blocked highways and international crossings, and demands for NAFTA treaty renegotiation lay a few facts about incompetence, corruption, and inefficiency.

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• Vital Signs

  October 2002

  South of the Border

  After decades of outward socio-cultural differences and political animosity, North America’s two United States—north and south of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo—are becoming more socially homogenous than some would care to admit.

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