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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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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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