it was worn by mexican-americans. by african-americans, japanese americans and especially on the west coast, filipino-americans as well. white youth adopted the zoot suit as part of their own sense of style and fashion. it is defined by a number of things. the baggy pants that ballooned out at the thigh and were tapered closely at the ankle. the pants were something that malcolm little described as quote unquote punjab pants. they were often accompanied by a coat with long tails flowing from behind. it wasn't uncommon for youth to have a gold or silver watch chain that they carried in their pocket and kind of swung as they walked along the streets. the pancake or wide-brimmed hat often with a feather, stuck in it was not unusual. my great uncle tony, the brother of robert alvarez senior, who we watched in the lemon grove incident last week, was a zoot-suter. and in fact here's an interesting footnote. the first time i ever studied and wrote any academic paper about the zoot suit, long before it became a book was when

we talked about 1910 and the mexican revolution and the dramatic changes that this made for the mexican origin folk on the northern side of the border. this week, we are going to begin discussion of our third flash point in the course which is 1943, really as a stand-in for world war ii, if you are recall, at the end of last week, we had been discussing those million plus mexican migrants who moved north of the border into the united states, many of them, hundreds of thousands of them and their children settling in the southwestern united states, california, texas, and elsewhere. we discussed their experiences, their trials and tribulations, what they lived through in the 1920s and the 1930s and the great depression. i mentioned a couple of times and will be spending most of today discussing what happened to their children. those million plus migrants who brought children with them in the 20s and 30s or had children who were born as american citizens and came of age in the 1930s and 40s who would become young adults living in the united states as the nation went to war during world war

he is killed in the square mesh between mexican-american youth gangs and they round up 600 mexican youths of. they end up arresting and putting on trial upwards of 19 youth ability -- affiliated with the gang which becomes the largest mass murder history trial at this point. those youth are sent to prison. despite many would argue a lack of evidence that they were the ones who actually killed josi diaz. more on this story in the film. for our purposes i want you to remember the sweeps. the 600 youth that were rounded up and in part because what was happening around them in the context of world war ii and it is not an accident that the la times and the popular press in la picks up on this regionalization of juvenile delinquency and the zoot suit. the zoot suit becomes front page headline news. this is a story that is picked up across the country and becomes international news. as the effort of the sleepy lagoon defense committee which is multiracial. this becomes a massive story and part of it is followed across the u.s. because the zoot suit becomes this icon of everything that is wrong a

he's a mexican-american living in los angeles. and barela wrote a letter to the municipal court judge who hbawld him out for disturbing the peace. he argued to the judge that, quote, ever since i can remember, i've been pushed around and called names because i'm a mexican. i was born in this country. like you said, i should have the same rights and privileges of other americans. pretty soon, i guess i'll be in the army and i'll be glad to go, but i want to be treated like everybody else. we're tired of being pushed around. we're tired of being told we can't go to this show or that dance hall because we're mexican. or that we better not be seen on the beach front or that we can't wear draped pants, which is what mexican-american often called the ballooned at the thigh tapered closely at the ankle zoot suit pants. or have our hair cut the way we want to. so, think about malcolm little's zoot story juxtaposed to alfred's swrzoot story. malcolm used his zoot suit to alienate himself from the mainstream united states, to evade the draf

that relationship with mexican migrants is a very important one to the mexican government.rian lamb: correct me if i am wrong, hundred 25 million people are there? it is the eighth most visited country in the world. there are 1.3 million afro mexicans. ginger thompson: yeah. aren lamb: the 83% of them roman catholic. the eighth -- free agency of the american government, the d.o.a., the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement, ice, and border patrol. have you done stories about how those three organizations relate to mexico? ginger thompson: i have been a lot of stories about those three organizations. a lot of my work has been about the role those agencies play in mexico, sometimes covert roles they play in helping mexico fight the drug war. the immigration and customs enforcement recently, for example, had worked with mexico on its own southern border to deter central american immigrants from coming into mexico who are headed to the u.s. and to turn those immigrants back around. drug enforcement administration long history in 1970, and has sent dozens of undercover agents

ginger thompson: a lot of mexican heroin is made for it is part of the drugs they mexican coffee. it is not usually from afghanistan. there are countries in south merica, peru, bolivia. a lot of heroin is mexican ade. brian lamb: you have been riting about mexico for 20 years or so. ginger thompson: in the time i began writing about it, mexico played a larger role. before i started writing about the drug war, columbia was the primary -- played the leading ole in the drug trade. once we, the u.s. began prosecuting colombian traffickers in the u.s., meaning we would ask columbia to extradite them and we entered into a really sophisticated partnership with the colombian government to bring down cartels. once the cartels understood the risk of being prosecuted in the .s., they shifted a lot of the transportation part of the drug trade to mexicans. they would produce the drug and select the mexicans and a lot of mexicans to say control of transporting drugs from south america to mexico into the u.s.. mexico became a leading player in the drug war. it's cartels began to control the trad

it's not just the fancy mexicans, the elite mexicans who can shop anywhere they want, but because of deportations that are now small communities building in mexico city, in guadalajara that are made up of people left the united states ten, 30, 35 years and they don't speak much spanish. it's a really interesting phenomena. i was supposed to cover that story before the election but i will wait until next week. it's really interesting thing. when i talked to them about homeland, they totally get it. >> your homelands love you. >> unbridled love. >> i've taken too much time. any questions? please. >> maria has a question. >> why is there so little recognition here in the united states that the demand for drugs, cocaine and meth destabilize i sent corrupts countries like the south american country? >> that's a great question. i don't know. i tried to insert that the life for that sentence or that paragraph in every story i write. because when people, when i went back to write these stories last week, i went back to a story i wrote in 2014 that goes into long detail about why they are lea

. >> so this is 38. 38 million mexican dees krend yents that live in this country. how many americans live down there? >> i'm not sure but it's not many in the north and there is a large enclave of american ex-pats. >> prison gdp is $20,000. >> no. >> what kind of lives do they lead? >> it's hard to generalize in mexico you know? this parts of the country farming is the economic industry and other parts, tourism so it depends and it has poor people that earn $2 or $4 a day and everything in between the way the united states does. what happens is that there is a larger percentage of people who are don't feel they have opportunities for education and loans are complicated and so when looking at reasons many people came because they're not coming in the same numbers anymore. right? for a while, many mexicans came to the united states seeking better opportunities for education because their minimum wage is lower than our hin mum wage. so looking at those economic pactors it's easy to see. >> someone talking about the fact there have been, we've lost a million jobs becau

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we have come to investigate how mexican drug cartels exploit weak u.s. gun laws to arm themselves with american weapons. our journey begins in a hotel in the northern mexican state of tamaulipas. we have a range to meet a group of people whose family members have gone missing it's not known whether they're living or dead the presence of drug cartels on the streets makes it too dangerous to meet them in an outside location along with me is that in the that are . committed is that that is a thirty day you're not. minimal in the illinois. in. see monitors arms does that. mean yes it is. but the odds of finding a family member a life alone. since two thousand and four well over one hundred fifty thousand people have been killed in mexico's so-called war on drugs. here in town my only purpose the gulf cartel and the last letters cartel are in a violent battle over the control of lucrative drug routes. civilians are often forced to take sides or end up in the crossfire most. of them with locals. is the most effective than there was busying here to see me he ca

mexican-indian, and native new mexicans. >> it shows the diversity of the area. see the downtown? >> yes. >> we are entering sort of the modern downtown. >> right. one of the things the city of las cruces did several years ago was it consolidated the museums to be shoulder to shoulder on main street. it took several years to renovate this district. it is ultra-modern. everything is brand new. it itrking, the lighting, tried to keep the feel of a certain time, but everything is within walking distance. theater, thethe bookstore. you can walk to all of the museums. >> we have been all around the las cruces area. we talked about the history. saw where the earliest settlers settled. what would you like to see next? make anext thing is to reality. destination for specifically cultural and eco- tourism. heritage tourism. i think there is a place for that. i think there is greater potential for that can anything else. >> thank you so much for showing us around today. our cities tour staff travel to new mexico to learn about its rich history. learn more about our stops on .org/cities c-sp

and mexican side where things stand there. i heard that last week that there was an expectation that the u.s. would drop the demand for this deal to be renewed every five years that had been a huge point of contention, not only on the canadian and mexican side and among the business community who argued that if we're going to make long term investments, we need to know this is a deal around longer than five years. that being said, the argument of the u.s. trade representative, robert lighthizer is who would enter into a lease that just goes on in perpetuity and you never renegotiate it he wanted to essentially create some milestones or mile markers every few years so all of the parties had to get back in the room and talk about whether it was still a good deal. but the expectation is that the u.s. in order to get a deal done would have to drop that provision because it is such a poison pill or viewed as such a poison pill by not only canada and mexico but also the u.s. business community at large. >> we talk so much about auto

m stands for mexican mafia. it just shows their loyalty. that's who they're loyal to.me, any time a certain request is done, they go ahead and handle what they're asked to do or what they're told to do. >> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where there's a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because they're heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs. >> the bulldog street gang originated in fresno, that group of hispanic population not being from southern california, not being from northern california, they affiliated or they joined together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. >> bulldogs they're not as organized as your other gangs. they don't have the leadership in their organization. their ru

it was the basis of the mexican food industry, so we always say he was the father of the mexican food industry. the chile pepper institute was established in 1983. our mission statement is to educate the world about chile peppers. with a long history of chile pepper research from the founding of the university to today. one of the things we noticed at our teaching garden is, people come in from all over and say, that is from my country. we were trying to export to asia. the asian market told us we did not have good quality. we did not know what they meant because we had good color, no insects, no disease or mold. we didn't understand why and we said they are putting up a barrier. only learned over time talking to people is that the chile has a different kind of heat. we weren't sure we knew what they were talking about. we began to study what we call a heat profile. every chile has five components to heat profile. the next time you read chilies, how fast is the you develop? is it a quick heat or delayed heat. does it dissipated quickly or linger four hours? the third is the heat, is a

share in the profit bonanza from sixty billion barrels of mexican oil. it's a black gold rush that has companies beating a path to the door of consulting firms like control risks it's the last frontier that has been opened for private investment basically every other country in the world including countries like cuba. have allowed foreign investment in their oil reserves mexico had not and potentially mexico has enormous reserves particularly in deep water place that will require investment by private companies and to be exploited. antonio guterres a former u.s. ambassador to mexico now legal adviser to u.s. oil companies is selling a bright future in mexico to his clients obviously energy companies are very excited about the prospect of investing in mexico they see the risk return is very attractive they've done business in foreign markets they recognize that this is one proximate to the u.s. there's a very real sense that mexico's a rocket about to lift. as foreign oil companies prepared to celebrate the profits still make from the reforms mexican econ

they are a mixture of spanish, mexican-indian, and native new mexicans. >> it kind of shows the diversity of the area. alex: right. >> with the meter to this neighborhood. should we see downtown? tortugase seen the neighborhood. should we go downtown? alex: yes. toy consolidated all museums be all shoulder to shoulder it located on main street. they spent several million dollars and it took several years to renovate this entire main street district. ultramodern. everything is brand-new. the parks and sidewalks and lighting. they still tried it to keep the feel of a certain time. period. is within walking distance. you can walk to the historic theater, you can walk to the bookstore. you can walk to all of the museums. >> we have been all around the las cruces area. we talked about its history and the earliest settlers and now we're into the modern downtown. what would you like to see next for southern new mexico? alex: the next thing is really to make reality the idea of forng this a destination specifically cultural and ecotourism, heritage tourism. we are poised for that. i think we have

any are so so i was born in the united states the daughter of mexican immigrants.my mom started like cleaning houses she was a maid you know so like they've sacrificed so much. for my sister and i to have a better life so for me i don't take it lightly to be a filmmaker. any us films portray people at the edges of american society immigrants without legal documents and without hope. our history in but i sat there in the square through the whole. system most families urge to preserving it is learning it better or really since day to day still where poor authentic scandia scary though and it's very very. early. in the event those. bombs stay. in kenya. the filmmaker chronicled the pregnancies of two women one living in the united states illegally the other with an undock. mentored mexican husband it was the period just off to donald trump's electoral college victory. after the election i. dreamt that there were vigil in t. crips going door to door in our neighborhood and my son was born and i was holding him in my arms and i was hiding my husband and the floorboards.

the mexican food industry. the chile pepper institute was established in 1993. our mission statement is to educate the world about chile peppers. we have a long history of chile pepper research from the founding of the university until today. one of the things we notice that teaching garden is people from all around the world will come in and see their chilies. that is my chile from my country, and we were trying to export at one point a chile to asia, and the asian markets will -- told us that we did not have good quality. we did not know what that meant because we had the color. we did not have insect parts or anything, disease, mold. we did not understand why. we thought, they are putting up a barrier. what we learned over time through talking to people is the chilies had a different kind of heat and we were not sure what they were talking about, so we began to study what we call today a heat profile, and every chile has five components to a heat profile, so the next time you eat chilies, watch how fast does

share in the profit bonanza from sixty billion barrels of mexican oil. it's a black gold rush that has companies beating a path to the door of consulting firms like control risks it's the last frontier that has been opened for private investment basically every other country in the world including countries like cuba. have allowed foreign investment in their oil reserves mexico had not and potentially mexico has enormous reserves particularly in deep water place that will require investment by private companies are to be exploited. antonio guterres a former u.s. ambassador to mexico now legal adviser to u.s. oil companies is selling a bright future in mexico to his clients obviously energy companies are very excited about the prospect of investing in mexico they see the risk return is very attractive they've done business in foreign markets they recognize that this is one proximate to the u.s. there's a very real sense that mexico's a rocket about to lift. as foreign oil companies prepared to celebrate the profits still make from the reforms mexican econ

share in the profit bonanza from sixty billion barrels of mexican oil. it's a black gold rush that has companies beating a path to the door of consulting firms like control risks it's the last frontier that has been opened for private investment basically every other country in the world including countries like cuba. have allowed foreign investment in their oil reserves mexico had not and potentially mexico has enormous reserves particularly in deep water place that will require investment by private companies to be exploited. antonio guterres a former u.s. ambassador to mexico now legal adviser to u.s. oil companies is selling a bright future in mexico to his clients obviously energy companies are very excited about the prospect of investing in mexico they see the risk return is very attractive they've done business in foreign markets they recognize that this is one proximate to the u.s. there's a very real sense that mexico's a rocket about to lift. as foreign oil companies prepared to celebrate the profits still make from the reforms mexican economic

for mexicans passions run high over oil because they run deep. in the same square where today people are protesting the privatization of oil they gathered in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight to celebrate its export creation from foreign companies who controlled mexico's oil in the opening decades of the twentieth century. liberal you've got something akin to what i was hoping. for the love of god if you know that's ok that's where you're going to. well you haven't been an issue because you're into the gospel but you know because i went to the border with . the foreign oil companies insisted on compensation. the mexican people gave up their possessions to pay off the bed. the oil was now out there so. seventy five years later the peoples only leasing deputy. foreign companies are once again poised to drill on mexican soil. and it's the farmers who have the most to lose. because he knows it's down. as you know. if they buy their own barrow. but that's not ok got it i don't either but you know if you'd be that good uppercut got up to go back t

a mexican conductor. come with me and meet great musicians and friends from all over the world.are not one but i want to working with stuff you know monique a month ago and we're doing a program that is mostly mexican including a piece by the mexico bowser so the rest of it was this that calls for a very specific i'll talk to most mexican instruments.

we have the mexican peso as well.t is retreating this morning after initially rallying on this u.s.-mexico deal. here?does this had from -- head from here? manus: the mexican peso rallied 4.4% this year. one thing is for sure -- the markets have decided to short risk protection, the vix, u.s. treasuries, and dollar. we are ratcheting lower in terms of the speculative. there is a larger short position on these trifectas of risk indicators in the market. is this the beginning of dominoes set to cascade after the midterms? you can't read that much across from mexico into china, but could it be after the midterms, trump ratchets up his ability to do deals? at the moment, the market believes risk on. -- we are seeing strategists raise the s&p 500 forecast. $27.50 is ony says the agenda. we are seeing a global left this morning. anna: in terms of the futures, we don't have much direction. new all-time highs on u.s. equity markets. we were talking this time yesterday about what china was doing. the mexico-u.s. news pushed u.

for mexicans passions run high over oil because they run deep. in the same square where today people are protesting the privatization of oil they gathered in one nine hundred thirty eight to celebrate its export creation from foreign companies who controlled mexico's oil in the opening decades of the twentieth century. liberal you who've been nothing but something akin to what i was hoping for what you want to put into the record because if you don't that's ok not. you're going to explode yet within a few of us you'll begin to ask why you ask us about the border with. the foreign oil companies insisted on compensation. the mexican people gave up their possessions to pay off the bed. the oil was now out there so. seventy five years later the people's choice in jeopardy. foreign companies are once again poised to drill on mexican soil. and it's the farmers who have the most to loose those of us got busy those is found it will now see it as your own. if they buy their own barrow. that's not ok that get up i don't know if it be that bad i've gotta ge

so i know that the mexican government is not producing heroin, although obviously members of the mexicant have gotten rich because of the heroin trade, but i want to apportion blame, too. drug cartels are doing this. why with the mexican government if mexico is indeed our ally and not our enemy, why would they make it easier for mexican drug cartels to kill americans? >> well, to start with, this seems like it's a fad now in the united states. let's blame it mexico for all of our problems in the united states. this is ridiculous. you have some legislators in mexico, some legislators especially at the level of theh state of guerrero where the puffy bulbs are produced, and bylb the way, most of the production goes for the terminallyth ill, not to the united states. you have one legislator in mexico, lower-level legislators that are talking about legalizing drugs. my friend, we have them in colorado, also, and other areas of the united states. would you choose not to believe in legalizing drugs. we have a terrible problem in the united states with the consumption of drugs. it's our problem,

>> first of all, it's not a mexican issue. we understand american sovereignty and it's full right to protect borders but we will not allow such an issue to define our relationship. we need to see through our differences. we need to work together. that's how we have been approaching this in a constructive and serious way. definitely the border will not allow to define the relationship. it's not for mexico or mexicans to decide on the border. it's an idea, which is not a friendly one. i don't think it would work for the objectives of the united states. >> what do you make of his argument that the reason fwheeded this fwheed -- need this is because rime is running ramp aant in mexico? >> we do not carry on the relationship between tweet.this rampant in mexico? >> we do not carry on the relationship between tweet. we don't negotiate through social media. it's not an issue we should allow defined by. >> do you have any sense from your negotiations with them as to whether they have ever brought up the issue of mexico paying for the

where is the mexican?ad to make traditional which means not mexican enough because they do not get it. >> so take me back to the beginning. when did you start feeling like this as a kid i can tell jokes and i can do this?>> five years old my dad would put me on the picnic table at the barbecues and i tell jokes and then my mom would be like this kid is going to hell. i was reciting eddie murphy but i always wanted to be a comedian. growing up and watching standup comedy i didn't know how i would do it and then i moved to dallas texas where there was a comedy club and you know how it is, one day you wake up and you are here.>> for you, you are on the road a lot and you are busy seven days a week nonstop. how do you do that with the family?>> luckily for me i have a 2 1/2 year old little boy and most of the time my wife and son travel with me. >> so you get no rest. >> they come to the cool cities like i do ohio all the time and they have never seen that. san francisco the last time i was here my wife came a

it was important to the outgoing mexican administration to get their pa rt mexican administration tomention, immigration, border security and the walk, all of those things that are huge obstacles between the trump administration and the sitting government in mexico city to try to figure out how they put this relationship back on to a more normal footing. put this relationship back on to a more normalfooting. will put this relationship back on to a more normal footing. will grant, put this relationship back on to a more normalfooting. will grant, for the moment, thank you very much, our correspondent in mexico city. plastic pollution in our seas and the subsequent rubbish washing up on our shores are huge problems for wildlife. in an attempt to improve the situation, marine conservationists in scotland have created an interactive map, which shows where the worst of the waste can be found. lorna gordon has been finding out more. taken to disguise in the war against litter. i am going on a flight with the volunteers pinpointing hotspot where plastic rubbish is washing in from the sea. t

it does not protect the interests of mexicans at all.nd so takes great pleasure in being dished the field director of ice. continue being aliens for those who are in charge of the consulate. and the consulate obviously works with immigration services of mexico and the customs services of mexico, which are mostly in the hands of military officers. we were about to be put in the hands of our executioners with the not of the consulate. this is sometetng which has cost me personally great fear because i was practically -- the life of my son was practically being put in the hands of the mexican army from a life which has nothing to do with the work that i've done over many years in mexico in my work as a journanalist. amy: finally, emilio, what message do you have for people outside ofof detention cenrs? what should we understand about what is going on in the detention centers, what you call the concentration camps of the united states? need toieve that we become more aware and to implement christian values above all else, which has been the

spanish,a mixture of mexican indian and native new mexican. >> it shows the diversity of the area. se it's in the tortuga' neighborhood, the puebla neighborhood and now we are entering the modern downtown of las cruces. the city the things of of las cruces did several years ago is it consolidated all of their museums to be shoulder to shoulder here on main street. it took us several years to renovate this entire main street district. brand-new, the parking, the sidewalks, the lighting, but they tried to keep that feel of a certain time period. but now everything is within walking distance. bookstore,k to the you can walk to all of the museums. >> we have been all around the area, we talked about its history among we saw were the earliest settlers started. what would you like to see next for southern new mexico? >> the next thing is to make reality -- the idea of making this a destination specifically eco-tourism.and i think we have as great or even greater potential for that than any other place in the southland. alex, thank you for showing us around the area today. we are in the m

mexican and american. neither one once you. they don't want you over there and they don't want you over here and that's the feeling in. on the line though no one. knows nothing. about anything except we have a very important visit we have a group of congressmen that have never visited a need to forty's or deported veterans and we're very excited that we're going to be able to talk to these people that are introducing legislation they're the ones that can get us home as well as maybe push the president to write an executive order hello everybody claim is lucky. and i part of a group of seven members of congress just under fisa through here if you want to make it go we wanted to kind of here to listen to the stories but also if they could mistakes back to our fellows in the american congress the american. public charity side in this. or should i just it's one of our. tribute to. go on here. i feel that us as.

against donald trump's anti-mexican rhetoric? >> i'm not a political analyst and i'll defer that question to the people who really understand political science. but what we know is that mexico had a very successful election and it was a transparent process in which we elected a new president which -- i'm particularly very encouraged by the fact that the transition is happening very smoothly and we're collaborating with the future government, with the future president and to ensure we have a successful transition and that includes relationship with the u.s. we'll remain neighbors and it's much better for the people of mexico to have a good relationship. it's encouraging no matter what it was said in the campaign, both in the u.s. and campaign here in mexico. that's in the past. what i see is a -- a buildup of a good relationship and nothing can be better for the people of mexico than having a constructive respectful relationship with the u.s. >> mr. foreign minister, pleasure to have you on, sir. >> thank you, it's great to see yo

we have come to investigate how mexican drug cartels exploit weak u.s. gun laws to arm themselves with american weapons. our journey begins in a hotel in the northern mexican state of tamaulipas. we have a range to meet a group of people whose family members have gone missing it's not known whether they're living or dead the presence of drug cartels on the streets makes it too dangerous to meet them in an outside location along with me is that in the that are . committed is that that is a thirty day you're not. minimal in the illinois and. in. see monitors arms does that. mean yes it is. but the odds of finding a family member a life alone. since two thousand and four well over one hundred fifty thousand people have been killed in mexico's so-called war on drugs. here in town my only purpose the gulf cartel and the last letters cartel and a violent battle over the control of lucrative drug routes. civilians are often forced to take sides or end up in the crossfire most. of them with locals. is the most effective than this busy doing ever seen he carries