A faint click…, click…., tick…. comes from somewhere in the distance, mixing with other sounds of the street; clangs, whistles, horns, calls…pasele, cuántos te damos? Advancing on calle lopez in the centro histórico the sound grows louder. I reach the corner with victoria, a block back from metro San Juan de Letran on Eje Central. I pause at a point where so often I stride […]
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Three months ago I inaugurated this planned series of Mexico City corners with my post about the Triple Alliance Garden on the corner of Tacuba and Filomena Mata in the historic centre. Although I’ve passed by and stopped on plenty of interesting corners of the city I neglected to add a follow up post. Until now. Today I […]
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Video and photos from the march for the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City on November 20 2014.
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Tomorrow Mexicans will again take to the streets in mass protest against the disappearance of the 43 students, the government response, absence of justice and indignation towards the Mexican state. Pressure is surely mounting on president Peña Nieto, including in the form of this article I have translated into English below. The original from the Mexican […]
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Tepito is the most imfamous zone of Mexico City. Known for drugs, muggings, and violence amongst other criminal activity, it is also a busy street shopping and market district known for the prevalence of pirated, illegal goods. The following is my translation from an article which appeared on the Chilango website. The original in Spanish […]
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Originally posted on MEXICO CITY METRO PROJECT:
On Friday of last week a short segment about the Mexico City Metro Project was aired on ‘Itinerario’ (Itinerary), a show on Canal Once (Channel Eleven) which is owned and operated by the Instituto Politecnico Nacional. I was interviewed by host Tamara De Anda and we did a…
Wake up people! Death is knocking at your door. Day of the dead (Día de muertos) happened over the weekend. In case you didn´t know it´s the day to celebrate or commemorate those who have moved on into the afterlife. Altars, usually very colourful, with offerings to the deceased are set up in homes […]
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¨They were taken alive, we want them alive¨ ¨Why do they murder them if they are the future of Latin America?¨ ¨The struggle goes on,goes on¨ There was another very big protest today in Mexico City demanding the appearance of the 43 young teaching students who ¨were disappeared¨ in Guerrero state on September 26. I heard […]
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There is still no closure in the tragic case of 43 missing students, almost certainly dead, in the Mexican state of Guerrero. On Sunday past renowned Mexican journalist and author Elena Poniatowska gave a powerful and immensely humanizing speech in Mexico City’s central square – el zocalo. The original transcript published in La Jornada can be found online […]
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It is well known that drugs, particularly cocaine, transit through Central American nations before reaching Mexican cartels and the lucrative US market. This report, in todays edition of Mexican newspaper El Universal , shows that Central American nations are also the source and destination of smuggled goods, products which are otherwise legal. The article investigates how […]
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