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Wives left behind by migrants in Mexico suffer poorer mental health

Mexican women left behind by husbands who migrate to the United States in search of work were one of the focuses of the documentary “Los Que Se Quedan,” or “Those Who Remain,” by Carlos Hagerman and Juan Carlos Rulfo, which we’ve mentioned a number of times here on La Plaza.
In response to those [...]

Jumex Collection owner says architectural choice not `malinchismo’

It’s not “malinchismo”, no way. I’ve always believed that the internationalization of projects can benefit and nourish the vision of many people in the country where the projects originate as well those who receive the works from abroad.

How Cafe Tacuba sprained my ankle

This is probably the least exciting location from which I have filed a dispatch. My sofa, in my third-floor apartment, my snowball-like foot propped up on a couple of cushions as I look out onto the cloudy Mexico City panorama this morning.
What happened? Well, it’s all Cafe Tacuba’s fault really.
I interviewed two of the [...]

First Stop in the New World: Taxi Ride

This is the final in our series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]

BorderReporter: God’s Gonna Cut You Down

What happened here last week was a sheer massacre.

First Stop in the New World: the Reality of Crime

This week MexicoReporter.com is publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]

Coleccion Jumex moves closer to Mexico City action

La Coleccion Jumex, one of the largest private collections of contemporary art open to the public in Latin America, is planning to move from its location on the outskirts of Mexico City closer to the action in the capital’s center.

Flour or corn tortillas?

I now realize that flour tortila love is a big part of my So-Cal identity, and I’m not the only one.

First Stop in the New World: Street Children in Mexico City

Her face is oval and nut-colored, with the enormous eyes of a gazelle. Montse’s expression is serious, cautious, pensative.

Preview the Mexican movies hitting Los Angeles in Hola Mexico festival

L.A. audiences would seem to need no introduction to Mexican cinema.

First Stop in the New World: Where the Money is, and Isn’t

This week MexicoReporter.com is publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]

Fiction series on Mara Salvatrucha wins Webby Award

“The Ten Commandments of la Vida Loca, ” received the Webby Award for best drama series during a weekend ceremony in New York.

First Stop in the New World: dollar-a-dance hostess

This week MexicoReporter.com will be publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World.”

Video: American design duo launches arts and culture mag in Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s culture, arts and music scene is the focus of a new magazine launched by two American designers living in the country’s capital, Managua.

Picture perfect this morning – Chapultepec lake

Clouds reflected in one of the lakes in Chapultepec Park early this morning.

Editorial: The News – what about the writers?

I wanted to add more details to the dispatch I filed today for the Los Angeles Times and MexicoReporter.com on the changes at the News. There were some details that didn’t seem worth including for the LATimes readers, but I wanted to share them with you here.

Mexico English-language daily sold; staff cut by two thirds

Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper The News, based here in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company and laid off dozens of staffers over the weekend.

Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza

Visits to some of Mexico City’s museums have fallen by as much as 90% since the outbreak of the H1N1 virus last month that prompted a near shutdown of numerous facilities

Video: Training Day

My breath is tearing out of my lungs and my leg muscles are screaming for a reprieve. I just scaled a 60-degree hill coated in thorny brambles and poisonous plants whilst being pounded by rain. In the dark. I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. Later that night, my fellow journalists and I were kidnapped by masked guerillas who jumped onto our bus.

Video: Mexican journalists put through their survival paces

A couple of non-profits got together and ran a course just outside Mexico City this month for 18 journalists living and working here.

Remembering ‘85

We had an earthquake last Friday. It was the second in a month also blighted by a new strain of influenza and economic recession – but that’s what life’s currently like here in Mexico.

Our man gets a mention

This has nothing to do with Mexico. But it DOES have something to do with MexicoReporter.com- and that’s the recognition of co-founder Mike Butcher as one of “The 10 Men a UK Female Internet Entrepreneur Should Know when Starting and Growing a Business,” according to the Next Woman business magazine.

“Mike Butcher truly is [...]

Schweppes pulls ad campaign after flu crack falls flat

Controversial ad campaigns about Mexico seem to keep popping up.

Mexico City writer inspires Saldamando in California

Artist Shizu Saldamando was inspired by Mexico City-based writer Daniel Hernandez.

Cartoon pokes fun at Subcom Marcos’ mask

The Mexican newspaper La Jornada today takes a poke at the jungle-dwelling rebel leader in the context of a nation trying to returning to normal after a H1N1, or swine flu, outbreak.

Film chronicles woman’s search for identity after Mexico’s ‘dirty war’

This week saw the cinema premiere here in Mexico of a film documenting the real-life story of Aleida Gallangos Vargas, the child of political activists who disappeared during the country’s “dirty war.”

Colombian street artist caught on tape

You may remember Colombian street artist Bastardilla from the piece I did on La Plaza a few months back.
Now you can see more of the mystery girl.

Video: Military’s drug museum shows narco tactics

The installation was designed as an educational tool for military personnel who have been tasked with fighting Mexico’s narco-trafficantes and organized crime networks.