Robert Joe Stout

Oaxaca resident Robert Joe Stout’s books include Hidden Dangers, Why Immigrants Come to America and The Blood of the Serpent: Mexican Lives. His writing on Mexico has appeared in The American Scholar, Notre Dame Magazine and New Politics.

Beautiful laws

Mexico’s federal government has reacted to seething discontent by violently shutting down popular protest. In doing so, it frequently breaks its own laws in the process. But how long can this last?

By Robert Joe Stout

/ 1 Jul 2014

The real culprits

Almost all of the 30,000 Oaxacan teachers who surged into Mexico City’s Zòcalo to protest the so-called educational reform this September were veterans of the 2006 demonstrations. They knew what they were in for.

By Robert Joe Stout

/ 23 Oct 2013