Podcast: “The Hard Country” Ep.8, Cinco de Mayo edition.

War in Tamaulipas, human experimentation in Tijuana, AMLO takes aim at the United States, and much more.

What don’t we cover on this week’s The Hard Country? We range from the 1915 Plan de San Diego, to present-day cartels conducting horrific human experiments in Tijuana and Mexicali, to AMLO’s rapidly metastasizing hostility toward the United States, to the outbreak of war in Tamaulipas, to a reminiscence of being chased out of Matamoros in 2011. We close with an homage to one of the leading public intellectuals of our age, First Lady Jill Biden, Ed.D., and her introspection on Cinco de Mayo. Have a watch —

The Hard Country can be found on YouTube, quite obviously, and also at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, and no doubt elsewhere.