Archive for August, 2007
Video: Lucha Libre Fighter Fuerza Guerrera Won’t Show His Face Without A Mask
Fuerza Guerrera is a famous Mexican Lucha Libre fighter who we met in the Latino American Gymnasio, Mexico City. He refused to be interviewed with his face showing – many fighters will only be seen in public wearing their masks. So we interviewed him from behind. Forgive my poor Spanish.
Conversation with a Lucha Libre fighter
Whilst lurking around the parking lot of Arena Mexico waiting for the press pass that we’ve been promised, NewCorrespondent noticed that sitting around chatting to the attendant was Ringo Mendoza, a well known Lucha Libre fighter. Now over 60 years old, he is still getting in the ring, and also teaches at the Lucha Libre school.
We HAD to speak to him, and he was only too happy to talk. Apologies for the poor quality of the photographs – there’s not much light in underground parking lots.
Conversation with a Nationalist Socialist in Mexico City
La Lagunilla, one of the biggest markets in Mexico City, is a boiling mass of furniture, cheap jeans, cameras, shoes, tacos, antique fur coats, old photographs, contemporary art, beer stalls, BBQs and practically anything else that you can think of. Whilst ambling through the hundreds of stalls that spring up each weekend at the market, NewCorrespondent stumbled upon a number of stalls selling paraphernalia from the Second World War.
Not only was the store selling original and replica objects that are testament to one of the most horrific chapters in European history, but the store’s owner claimed to be a Nationalist Socialist himself.
Video: One Man Dies and 24 are Injured in Bullfighting Festival
One man died and 24 people, including one women, were injured in Huamantla’s amateur bullfighting festival in Mexico this weekend.
Each year, the small town of Huamantla in the state of Tlaxcala celebrates the day of the Virgin Mary by creating brightly-coloured designs and draping the streets in colour. But it’s the amateur bull-fighting event that [...]
Video: Bullfighting can be as good as an orgasm, says wannabee matador
Jose Hormos is part of the collective that organises the event in Huamantla each year that sees the bulls let loose in the streets. He spoke to NewCorrespondent.com about his views and the event, whilst sitting on top of a casket that contained a 450 kilo bull.
Hurricane Dean gathers on the Yucatan Peninsula
This picture, courtesy of Lucy Gallagher from Mexiconservacion, shows Hurrican Dean gathering above Akumal, on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Click here for more pictures.
Bull-taunting in pictures
Anyone can try their hand at being a matador with the bulls in Huamantla, which are let loose in the streets as part of the celebrations for a religious festival.
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Reading the newspapers leaves blood on your hands…..
Walking around the streets of Mexico City, it’s hard to miss the corpses all around. I’m not talking about dead bodies on the street, but rather the bloodied corpses in the hands of street vendors and shoe shiners taking a break from their work to flick through their daily newspapers.
Accustomed to the rather gore-shy British [...]
Video: Lydia Cacho on the Dangers for Journalists in Mexico
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro is a Mexican journalist who was imprisoned and tortured after publishing a book on a child pornography and prostitution ring in the country.
In her 2004 book, Los Demonios del Eden: el poder detras de la pornografia infantile (The Demons of Eden: the power behind child pornography), Cacho claimed there were links between [...]
Video: A Cautionary Tale
Many families in Mexico are drawn into the narco-trafficking industry.
Ulises Escamilla Haro explains how he and his family narrowly escaped such a fate.
Snorkelling a Cenote in Tulum
The Maya Riviera down on the Caribbean Mexican Coast is home to some of the country’s best kept secrets – cenotes. Cenotes are underwater caves, and there are more than 150 forming part of the network along the Riviera. You can dive or snorkel them, and I had a commission to write a piece for [...]
Video: Tulum’s dirty beaches
New Correspondent paid a visit to the Sian Ka’an Biosphere reserve in Tulum, Mexico. Lucy Gallagher from Mexiconservacion explained why the Reserve’s beaches are so dirty.
Video: Mexico’s deteriorating environment
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Water pollution is one of the biggest problems, and the growth of tourism in the area prompts the growth of new settlements due to the new jobs created. The hotels are required to have a water-treatment plant, but the settlements for hotel workers have no such facilities obligations or facilities.
The direct impact of tourism is [...]
Mexico ‘consistently fails’ to protect the human rights of its citizens.
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(This is a transcript of Kahn’s words, as the sound is a little weak.)
So my friends, we have been talking already around the table and now we’re joined by the media who’d like to hear from us our experiences and impressions of the human rights situation in Mexico.
I’d like to begin my introducing the [...]
