Despite working just nearby in the Cuajimalpa borough for almost a year, I never visited or explored the edge city of Santa Fe, situated around thirteen and a half kilometres southwest of the central square in Mexico City’s historic centre. So, after I recently returned to my former workplace to finalise my resignation I decided to head […]
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MEXICO CITY – Peter W Davies On May Day – International Workers´ Day – at approximately 10:30am, a large group of police officers, around 50, were gathered in Callejon San Ignacio just off Plaza de las Vizcaínas in the Centro Historico district of Mexico City. Police musters are seen often throughout Mexico City. Regular officers […]
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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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The streets of Mexico City are jam packed with street art, everything from messy tags to stencil work to wacky sculptures to large and bold murals. Of course Mexico has a long and proud history of muralism exemplified especially by the ´big three´ Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. During the first […]
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As a kind of companion piece to the street photograph collection Mexico City Centro Histórico at dawn that I posted last year, below you will see four shots of the Centro Histórico at (approaching) dusk. These shots are taken from the rooftop of the building where I live, a short ladder climb from my top floor apartment. Looking […]
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The informal economy of Mexico City is a broad church. Hundreds of thousands of individuals look for their unique way to earn enough pesos to survive each day; selling gum or earphones on the metro, frying quesadillas on a kerbside griddle, riding a bicycle with a steel vat full of tamales attached, washing windscreens, selling […]
Read moreAround 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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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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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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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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