We gabachos get differing reports regarding the Reconquista. Some say it's a genuine movement, well underway. Others claim it'll never happen, but that it's useful as a slogan that both antagonizes white America and energizes young Mexicans. Let's say for now that it's a genuine movement destined for success.

This Irishman living in Denver has asked many Mexicans why Estados Unidos is abbreviated in Spanish as EE.UU instead of E.U.? No one seems to know. I even e-mailed the question to a couple of friends in Costa Rica for Christmas.

Dear Mexican: A gabacho in the local daily suggested that some of our prisons be outsourced to Mexico to save us some money. What are your thoughts? Would wabs make for good guards looking after homies and white-trash inmates? Have a chew on that taco.

Dear Mexican: My family hasn't been long in this country, came here because of lousy treatment by other Europeans, and didn't live close enough to the southern US border to have exposure to Mexico or Mexicans. So, anyone looking down on Mexicans can be mysterious to many of us that have migrated to the Southwest, like myself.

Dear Readers: We begin, as we do each week, with cojones, although the huevos in question deal with my column a couple of semanas ago on why gabachos prefer the former term for testicles as opposed to the latter. I gave a rough etymology of the two

Dear Mexican: Why does El Tri act like pendejos every time the US Men's National Soccer Team kicks their ass? They won't even shake hands or exchange jerseys after the game and they always act like the US got lucky with the win, even though the Americans have destroyed Mexico on the pitch this century.

Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a penis and vagina on the interiors of port-a-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then you got the white boy reply, "Here I sit flexing a..." You should know the rest.

Dear Mexican: The mainstream media is making big noise of Sonia Sotomayor likely being the first Latina Supreme Court justice, and that all Latinos should be proud. But Puerto Rican ain't Mexican! The Supreme Court won't have a shade of brown until a Mexican is among Roberts and Scalia.

I was reading through the glossary in your "Ask a Mexican! book and I came upon the word pocho, an Americanized Mexican. To me, it suggests some sort of essential Mexican-ness that I find to be disturbing. There is a similar ethic in the black community.

Dear Mexican: Why is it that ever since the US/California let you people immigrate, tunnel, weasel or whatever into this country that nothing good has happened and/or come from it? Californias welfare program is burdened with low-life Hispanics. The prison system is 70 percent Hispanic, 45 percent gang-based.

Dear Mexican: You once asked why Mexican bands dont hit it big in the good old US of A. I think the simple answer is that there are no Mexican Mouseketeers. You dont get to be Justin Timberlake by picking a guitarrn. Slater from Saved by the Bell doesnt count.

Dear Mexican: Why is it that when I go to the Mexican supermarkets to buy productos femeninas, fully 98 percent of the aisle provided for such things is composed of maxi pads and the limited selection of tampons are in dusty boxes with a sell-by...

Dear Mexican: Not sure if this has been asked before, but how do you feel about Arizonas Sheriff Joe Arpaio? I think the guys a fucking racist whos just out to get Mexicans to fulfill his racist agenda.

Dear Readers: Before we move on to your spicy preguntas, a bit of housecleaning. Primeramente, gracias to all the Know Nothings who responded to my 100-wordessay challenge asking them to justify loving legal Mexicans but not the illegal ones; I will publish the best entries on the Mexicans April Fools edicin.

Dear Mexican: I believe that the words people use to describe other people, intentionally or unintentionally, reflect their political values. But I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, so I write to you. You described Cesar Chavez as hating illegals in a previous column, and as being ethnocentric early in his career.

Dear Mexican: I have a question from one Mexican to another: Why do gabachos think we know everything about plants? During conversations with the estadounidenses , I will get asked about plants, pruning, how to keep roses alive, etc.

Dear Mexican: I have a question from one Mexican to another: Why do gabachos think we know everything about plants? During conversations with the estadounidenses , I will get asked about plants, pruning, how to keep roses alive, etc.

Dear Mexican: I cant tell you how disappointed Ive been these past few days, as a US citizen and ciudadano mexicano, how Ive been seeing more and more stories about los narcos and how the Mexican government keeps getting screwed over in newspapers.

Dear Mexican: I am a naturalized (legal) hispano in the US and I just realized what the illegal craze is about. What immigrant-bashing citizens are trying to protect here are people like me. Consider what this concerned woman said to Sen.

Dear Mexican: Mi hermano y yo tenemos un dispute. We all know that Mexicans love their bistec sliced muy thin, but why? My brother is adamant that the diet of free-range vacas mexicanas results in tough meat, necessitating a thin slice for easy mastication.