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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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 […]
Read moreOn 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 mini tour of a few of the […]
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Although Independence Day was over a week ago, Mexico City remains awash in Green, white and red. Today I passed by the government offices of Cuahtemoc, one of the 16 boroughs of el DF (Federal District). Giant banners with quotes from Mexican independence heroes drape the buildings. The fatherland comes first. VICENTE GUERRERO Dying is nothing when […]
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El grito de Dolores (The cry of Dolores) marked the start of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810. It was priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla who gave the call. Each year on this day, September 15, the cry is reenacted all over Mexico in small pueblos and pulsating large cities. Of course the capital hosts […]
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While I was walking around the streets of Mexico City’s centro historico a couple of weeks back, I had an idea to start a series of snapshots of interesting corners that I come across in my wanderings in the city. Of course, the streets of the Mexican capital hold all sorts of intrigue beyond the corners. For months I […]
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Not only have I painted these landscapes, I have lived them as well. Up to the point it has been possible, I have worked in difficult conditions: wind, heat and cold. I have set up my easel in an infinite number of places in our country and abroad. From those places I took away not just […]
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