Around noon today on a makeshift cement field in a small square in downtown Mexico City a competitive game of futból was underway between two teams of homeless guys, eager for next week´s bragging rights.
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JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAS IN MÉXICO DF: #3 REPÚBLICA DE BRASIL
It´s a different experience walking in certain streets of the historic centre of the city on a Sunday as opposed to a Saturday or any other day of the week for that matter. Things calm down markedly, even in a megalopolis of this magnitude. While you won´t notice any difference if you join the throngs marching down […]
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STREET TACOS ARE MADE FROM DOG AND HORSE MEAT ACCORDING TO THOSE WHO EAT THEM (TRANSLATION)
Mexico City*. According to a telephone poll, 66% of Mexicans who eat tacos in the street maintain that they haven´t become ill from doing so and 71.8 % believe that there are stalls that use dog and horse meat in their tacos. Tacos took out first place as the preferred snack with a total […]
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JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAS IN MÉXICO DF: #2 REPÚBLICA DE BOLIVIA
Yes, Bolivia is a republic but the official name of the country is actually Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (Plurinational State of Bolivia). That´s probably too long to put onto a street sign so República de Bolivia it is. Landlocked Bolivia – the country – is one of the poorest in the Americas. It is, however, blessed with […]
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JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAS IN MÉXICO DF: #1 REPÚBLICA DE CUBA
I´ve spent four of the last five years in the Americas. About two years of that time has been spent traveling the length and width of the continent; from Patagonia to the USA, the Pacific to the Atlantic and into the interior – the Amazon river, highlands of Bolivia, Machu Pichu, volcanoes of Central America. […]
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ALL THE BULLETS ARE GOING TO COME BACK
On the streets of central Mexico City – 5 months since the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa teaching students.
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THE BITE THAT FEEDS THE HAND: POLICE BRIBES IN MEXICO CITY
The wide avenues and boulevards of Mexico City are deep oceanic trenches. An enormous, sleek marlin swims down Paseo de la Reforma effortlessly passing all the other, inferior fish using its seemingly effortless speed to cut through the water. Avenida Insurgentes is Angel Falls, gushing in a precipitous drop from north to south. The […]
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WORLDWIDE DISREPUTE AND THE COUNTER OFFENSIVE FROM LOS PINOS (TRANSLATION)
This article is translated from the Spanish original written by J. Jesus Esquivel, Marco Appel and Yetlaneci Alcaraz. It appeared in the weekly investigative journalism magazine Proceso in October 2014. The first part of the article can be found online here. This week president Peña Nieto stated that Mexico needs to move on from the […]
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LA LUCHA SIGUE, SIGUE …. (THE STRUGGLE GOES ON…AND ON)
Here in Mexico City there was another mega-march yesterday in solidarity with the families of the 43 disappeared Mexican students. The march marked 4 months since their disappearance on September 26 2014 in the city of Iguala in the state of Guerrero. The families of the missing along with many thousands, if not millions, of […]
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HOW TO PROBABLY NOT BUY A MOBILE TELEPHONE IN MEXICO CITY
It was a Saturday and the day dawned clear, which was good because I had some errands to run. One of them was to buy a new mobile telephone. After completing a few of the errands and without a particular intention to be there, in the early afternoon I found myself on a part of […]
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LATIN AMERICA FOCUS 