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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Currently in Peruvian politics it seems that there is a classic old case of “who is wearing the pants?’ According to the columnist Federico Salazar, as well as many Peruvians, the answer is first lady Nadine Heredia and not the Peruvian President Ollanta Humala. Salazar writes that this conception, whether it is true or not, […]
Read moreThe front page yesterday’s edition of Mexico City newspaper “La Jornada” contained the headline – Racism so established in Mexico that it is hidden. I bought the newspaper and sat down to read the article by Fernando Camacho Servin. The orignal version in Spanish is online here. A couple of bloggers I follow have written on […]
Read moreStreet dogs are common all over Latin America. They inspired me write ‘Ode to the Latin American Street Dog‘ which I published on this blog. The reality of life on the streets for these animals is extremely tough and as if they didn’t already have a raw deal, their lives are made even more difficult, […]
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Barack Obama has deported more people from the United States than any previous president. While there can be little doubt that the highest number of deportees are of Mexican origin, this article shows that the issue reaches a lot further south in the continent. It is from the online edition of La República. Read the […]
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From BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here. On the day of Gabriel García Márquez’s farewell, it was hot in Mexico City. For hours the sun persistently beat down on thousands of people who patiently waited to say goodbye to the writer, but later the climate changed mood and suddenly the muggy heat […]
Read moreAustralian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, the only woman in the Tony Abbott led conservative government’s cabinet, is in Mexico City this week. Earlier in the week she held talks with the foreign ministers of Mexico, Indonesia, Korea and Turkey. This group of nations, known as MIKTA, was formed last year to cooperate on a wide range of […]
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Chile is having a very difficult month. At the start of the month there was the large earthquake affecting the north of the country and now the beautiful port city of Valparaiso, Chile’s bohemian cultural heart, is battling a fire that has left a death toll of 12, an estimated 2,500 destroyed homes and 11,000 […]
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Article by Carolina Robino published online at BBC Mundo. Read the original in Spanish here One of the things that has most interested British journalists that are covering the earthquake which devastated the north of Chile on Tuesday is why people don’t run in terror while objects fall around them. Other colleagues from the BBC, […]
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