La gente at the Latin American travel blog Travel Ojos just posted a little interview I did about my favorite country, Mexico. Here is an excerpt:

Some of the issues you covered in Mexican Enough were gay rights, government corruption in Oaxaca, and the heavy toll that immigration to the United States is taking on family life. If you were to write a sequel to Mexican Enough what are some of the problems that you would cover?

I could write a whole volume on the devastation wrought by the Drug War in recent years. It is shocking how anarchic the situation has grown during Felipe Calderon’s presidency. According to the Juarez newspaper Norte, more than 2,600 people were murdered in that one city last year. And not just murdered, but beheaded and dunked in barrels of acid. The US Drug Enforcement Administration needs to launch a publicity campaign equating the consumption of illegal drugs to the slaughtering of Mexicans. Smoking pot needs to be considered as morally degenerate as wearing fur coats made of baby seals. Either that, or we need to legalize drugs. Now.