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Slinging CDs in the crowded subways isn’t an easy gig. The vendors, known as vagoneros, walk from car to car offering music from cumbia to reggaeton on CDs stuffed into plastic sleeves.…
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Mezcal has been made in Mexico at least since the time of the conquistadors. For years, it was seen as the poorer cousin of the national drink, tequila. But now mezcal is making a return from the wilderness.…
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Its road safety record is among the world's worst but, in Mexico's capital, police wielding breathalysers are making a big difference…
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Thanks largely to vehicle emissions, Mexico City was once the world's most polluted urban centre. But over the past decade, a focus on sustainable alternative transport has persuaded a growing number of citizens to leave their cars at home.…
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October 2 2012 – The animal rights lobby in Mexico City proposed a ban on bullfighting last year to the capital’s legislative assembly. Following a similar move in Catalonia in Spain and recent restrictions on the controversial practice in several Latin American countries, including Ecuador…
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Southern Mexican town is a haven for gay and transvestite men.…
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August 27th 2012 – Over the last few years, reported murders of women have shot up in parts of Mexico, dwarfing the number of cases in Ciudad Juarez – famous for femicide.…
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Mirna Cartagena knows all about regret. Now in her early thirties, she spent most of her twenties in jail after she was caught trying to transport cocaine and crystal meth across her home state of Sinaloa, Mexico.…
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Esteban Volkov is the 86-year-old grandson of Leon Trotsky, the Russian Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Red Army. Volkov, who followed Trotsky to Mexico when he sought exile there in 1937, recalls the two assassination attempts orchestrated by Stalin on his grandfather, the last…
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August 10 2012 – Mexico City has a new mention in the Guinness Book of Records – for the world’s biggest sandwich. The victor was a 52 metre monster with over 70 fillings, and crews from 55 different restaurants worked on it. Deborah Bonello for…
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The Cerveceria Modelo made Corona synonymous with Mexico around the world – now it’s been taken over by a US firm. Instead, Mexican punters are developing a taste for stronger, niche beers, and micro-breweries are springing up to meet demand.…
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Telling the truth about the violence in Sinaloa is an especially dangerous profession. Even within Mexico, a country that now bears the ignominious title of being one of the most dangerous in the Americas for journalists, Sinaloa is among the worst, a black hole where…
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Mexico's leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is filing a legal complaint with election officials…
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