Author

Guillermo Jimenez

Jimenez is the English-language deputy editor for the PanAm Post and host of the Traces of Reality radio show and the Demanufacturing Consent podcast on Boiling Frogs Post. He is based in South Texas, deep within the DHS "constitution-free zone." Follow @tracesofreality.

Economics

Report: US Taxpayers Bear the Brunt of Health-Care Licensing Laws

Guillermo Jimenez Jan 27, 2016 5

If you are a Medicaid recipient in the United States, the cost of your medical care — absorbed by taxpayers — is being driven up by occupational-licensing requirements in the health-care industry. According to a new study by the…
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Featured

‘Making a Murderer’ Exposes the Crushing Power of the State

Guillermo Jimenez Jan 20, 2016 2

How easy would it be for the state to convict you of a crime that you did not commit? How much can an innocent man withstand when faced with the full, soul-crushing might of the US criminal-justice system? These are the lingering…
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North America

Civil Libertarians Are in Love with Big Brother’s Body Cameras

Guillermo Jimenez Dec 18, 2015 14

EspañolCall me a cynic, but it seems like the wool has been pulled over our eyes. Following a rash of police-brutality cases in recent years, civil libertarians across the country — and around the world, even — are now nearly in…
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Free Speech

Arizonans Stage Sit-In to Halt Inland Immigration Checkpoints

Guillermo Jimenez May 28, 2015 19

EspañolArivaca's had enough, and residents of this rural Arizona border town are letting the US Department of Homeland Security know that their inland immigration checkpoint has got to go. Some 100 concerned citizens and like-minded…
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North America

Video Didn’t Save Eric Garner, Body Cameras Won’t Save You

Guillermo Jimenez Dec 12, 2014 14

EspañolDaniel Pantaleo choked a man to death on camera. He wrapped his arm around his victim's neck and squeezed until the life escaped his body. The victim was, of course, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black father of six, whose final…
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Drug War

Mass Graves, Murderous State-Cartel Alliance Revealed in Guerrero

Guillermo Jimenez Oct 30, 2014 15

EspañolOver a month has passed since the forced disappearance of the normalistas (student teachers) of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, and still 43 remain missing. On September 26, members of the Iguala…
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News

Witness: Laredo Police Knew It Was a Pellet Gun When They Killed Jose Garza

Guillermo Jimenez Sep 4, 2014 24

EspañolAn eyewitness to the police killing of Jose Walter Garza in Laredo, Texas, on Saturday has come forward to contradict the official account of events. In an interview with local, independent journalist Hector Cubillos, Gateway…
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Ideology

Libertarian Christians Converge, Challenge Statism as Faux Religion

Guillermo Jimenez Aug 4, 2014 57

EspañolThe first ever Christians for Liberty (CFL) Conference took place on Saturday, and it brought together over 100 varied individuals: men and women, young and old, united in their Christian faith and libertarian political philosophy.…
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Columnists

Border Patrol Throw Political Bone to Civil Libertarians; Will We Fetch?

Guillermo Jimenez Mar 27, 2014 38

Español For years, Border Patrol agents have effectively acted with impunity along the southern border of the United States, shooting anyone — including Mexican nationals on the other side of the border — when confronted with the threat of…
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Columnists

Beyond Snowden: Don’t Coddle the National Security State; Smash It

Guillermo Jimenez Mar 13, 2014 28

Español On Monday, former NSA contractor, CIA employee, and provider of secrets, Edward Snowden spoke at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. In case you missed it and are now scratching your head wondering how…
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Columnists

The Drug War’s Theater of the Absurd: El Chapo Guzmán’s Arrest

Guillermo Jimenez Mar 4, 2014 9

Español In the theater of the absurd that is the War on Drugs, the rational gives way to the irrational — the logical to the illogical. We observe the narcotics supply-chain of individuals and the law enforcement apparatus, both trapped…
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Columnists

Casualties of the Drug War: Truth, Justice, Journalism

Guillermo Jimenez Feb 18, 2014 8

EspañolThey say "truth is the first casualty of war." Amid conflict, the truth is often obfuscated by the aggressor, who at times, in the name of "the greater good," may even project deliberate falsehoods to justify the engagement. Once…
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