Hans Giébe is an artist, writer, painter and poet who hails from the city of Pachuca in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. He is quite prolific in his output and also writes at his site ‘The Seventh Verb.’ Take a look! I met Hans sometime last year at a poetry reading of the online […]
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Mexico has a minimum wage of around 69 pesos a day ($4.50 US), the lowest in Latin America and one that affects millions of people in the country who must juggle to cover basic needs like food and transport. According to a report from the United Nations Development Programme, the 2014 minimum wage in Mexico of $146.15 US […]
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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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¨President Pepe¨. Said like that, it sounds like an election slogan. But as José Mujica is about to end – on March 1 – his term as president he is more ¨Pepe¨than ever. ¨I´ve been in the profession for half a century and I´ve had the opportunity to meet and/or mix with a broad range […]
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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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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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The voice of Andrea Echeverri, the lead singer of Colombian band Aterciopelados, first came to my attention way back in the mid 90s when I heard her accompany Gustavo Cerati in the Soda Stereo classic ‘en la ciudad de la furia” at their MTV unplugged concert. I really like this song and have been meaning do […]
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Below is my translation of a feature that appeared in yesterday’s print edition of Mexican newspaper El Universal. The original in Spanish can be found online here. When pieces of the Berlin Wall began to fall on November 9 1989 symbolising the start of the end of the Cold War, the old struggle between communism and […]
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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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