This station, sandwiched between Insurgentes Sur and Zapata, takes its name (I’m sure you worked it out) from the nearby hospital. It, in turn, I assume, is named after the significant day in Mexican history of November 20 1910 when Francisco Madero crossed into Mexico from Texas to initiate the Mexican revolution. Fairly quiet streets […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 149: Calle 11
As I previously mentioned , line 12 intersects with 4 other lines. For this visit I joined line 12 at Ermita, a station at the southern end of line 2. As I’ve also said before some of the stations are huge, the long walk to change lines at Pantitlan is especially arduous. However, I have an […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 148: Insurgentes Sur [Project Resumption]
I’ve been back in Mexico City a few days. It has seemed a bit strange at times,walking around the streets of the ‘centro histórico’ where I used to live, visiting old haunts – everything familiar but with subtle changes, in my perspective also. The faces of the taqueros (taco vendors) and viene-vienes (unofficial parking assistants/car minders) I recognise have slightly […]
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HOW THE ZAPATISTA BALACLAVA BECAME A TOURIST ICON (TRANSLATION)
The twentieth anniversary of the indigenous uprising in the southern Mexican state has just passed. On January 1 1994, the date that the NAFTA (North-American Free Trade Agreement) came into effect, the EZLN ( Zapatista Army of National Liberation) led by the enigmatic Subcomondante Marcos took control of the city of San Cristobal de las Casas […]
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OAXACAN PERCEPTUAL WONDERS
In late 2012 I found myself in a taxi in Mexico City with a fifty-something year old driver. Our conversation followed a familiar pattern. He asked me how long I had been in Mexico and which parts of the country I had visited. I told him of my travels and he replied that while that […]
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MEXICO CITY SNIPPET OF LIFE # 2: BUMDOM AND THE LORD
Homelessness is a complex problem facing people all over the world. I try to understand a little more about individual cases of homelessness by sharing conversations from time to time with folk I come across on the street. The gentleman featured is an ‘indigente’ that I met on the streets of the historic centre of […]
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MEXICO CITY SNIPPET OF LIFE # 1: SON OF HERNANDEZ
It’s a bright Sunday morning and I am sitting in the shade on the fringes of a pedestrian thoroughfare engrossed in the sordid Parisian world of Henry Miller’s ‘Tropic of Cancer’. I raise my gaze to see Sunday strollers meander by. Parishioners stream from the colonial era church, momentarily coagulating the flow of passers-by. A […]
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MEXICO METRO IN MOTION
A blur! It feels like this a lot of the time but in Mexico City there is not a better way to get around the city. I visited the station and surrounds of the whole system and documented the experience with photographic images and anecdotes. Check out the Mexico City Metro Project.
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THE MCM PROJECT: WELCOME AND REVIEW / BIENVENIDOS Y REVISTA
WELCOME TO THE MEXICO CITY MEXICO PROJECT! ¡BIENVENIDOS AL MEXICO CITY METRO PROJECT! In whatever way and for whatever reason you have arrived here I hope you enjoy or find what you are looking for. Please read on to find out more about the MCM Project. I would love to hear your impressions. En […]
Read moreStation / Estación # 147: Zocalo [FINAL STATION – END OF PROJECT]
After six months and a smidgen to boot, the rolling, engaged motion of the virtual carriages of the Mexico City Metro Project comes to a final halt. 146 prior stops provided enormous scope for urban wander, yielding tremendous urban wonder (within the ordinary as well) and that, of course, has been the narrative and pictorial […]
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LATIN AMERICA FOCUS 