Barrendero / Street sweeper Papas / crisps Un buen ojo para la arquitectura / A good eye for architecture Haz mi elote bien cabrón! / Make my corn properly motherfucker! Hazlo o no / Do it. Or not. Sin titulo / Untitled Animal agachado / Animal crouch
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Mexico lost 3-0 to Sweden yesterday and had Germany beaten South Korea as expected, El Tri would have been eliminated from Russia 2018. But the Koreans managed to do what few thought was possible and beat the Germans and in the process secured Mexico’s passage through to the second round. South Korea quickly became the new […]
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Meme I saw floating around on social media. In the middle is Ricardo Anaya, presidential candidate for the right-left coalition For Mexico in Front but himself a member and former national president of the National Action Party (PAN). The PAN, a right of center, conservative party has been Mexico’s main opposition party for decades and […]
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The video below is a remix/mash-up of comments made by three of the four presidential candidates in the second debate a few weeks ago in Tijuana. The refrain of the “song” is sung by leading candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and means “Richie Rich Little Swine.” It’s a reference to second-place candidate Ricardo Anaya’s alleged […]
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This video clip went kind of viral a couple of months ago. A young fresa (stuck-up) woman from Guadalajara makes the outrageous confession that she is going to vote for the leftist presidential frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) despite being a niña bien (rich girl) from a conservative, Catholic family who always votes for the right-wing […]
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Mexico’s presidential election is coming up on July 1, with four candidates battling it out to succeed Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for a six-year term starting December. Third time candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has a commanding lead in most polls and barring a catastrophe — including electoral fraud — looks […]
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Five color shots from the historic centre of Mexico City. All taken in the last month or so with my Ricoh gr ii (no edits except I flipped the first shot the other way around). Taxi and its reflection in a puddle on Avenida Hidalgo as it approaches Eje Central. Buildings from left to right […]
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The Raised Fist You are from the place where you pick up the garbage. Where two bolts of lightning fall in the same place. Because you saw the first, you wait for the second. And you’re still here. Where the earth opens and people come together. You arrived late again: You’re alive because you’re unpunctual, […]
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Here is an extended interview / chat with El Chapulín (The Grasshopper). The guy is almost as good at talking as he is at jumping. I wrote about him once before in my defunct Corners of the City series. Interview is in Español and is actually from a couple of years ago. The building you’ll see […]
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A series of 7 photos of an abandoned PEMEX gas station in the Baja California desert at Cataviña.
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