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In Photos: Dia de los Muertos in Mexico City’s Zocalo

This weekend Mexico celebrates one of its most popular festivals – Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

10:55 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,culture,dia de muertos,photography,Zocalo | Read More »

Photographer documents Mara Salvatrucha in prison

The intricate tattoos on the faces, chests, arms and legs of members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gangs of Los Angeles and Central America are on display this month in downtown Mexico City.

11:25 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,mara salvatrucha,photography | Read More »

Grasshoppers on guard in Mexico City

Walking through Bosque de Chapultepec this morning, I did what I’ve been meaning to do for months – I took a shot of one of the many chapulines that stand guard around Mexico City’s biggest park.

9:08 am | Posted in culture,photography | Read More »

Two years on, dead U.S journalist remembered on both sides of the border

Activists and rights groups marched in remembrance of Brad Will yesterday in the state of Oaxaca, marking the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of the U.S videographer.

10:30 am | Posted in advocacy,brad will,committee to protect journalists,corruption,crime,government,human rights,human rights commission,impunity,journalism,justice,Oaxaca,police,politics,protests,violence | Read More »

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard’s daily hassles

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Traffic, protesters and street vendors are some of the biggest daily headaches for Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard.

7:35 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,corruption,crime,culture,police,politics,protests,video | Read More »

Activists arrested for the murder of Brad Will

Two members of the protest movement that activist and videographer Brad Will was covering when he was shot dead more than two years ago have been arrested in connection with his murder.

2:02 pm | Posted in advocacy,amnesty international,blood,brad will,corruption,crime,culture,freedom of speech,journalism,justice,Oaxaca,photography,police,politics,protests | Read More »

Recovering drug addict tells his tale

Rodrigo Sonck realized that he had to do something about his coke habit when he took a beating from drug thugs. We caught up with him at an addiction recovery center in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, where he’d been for a month.

7:44 am | Posted in addiction,cocaine,drugs,video | Read More »

Bajo Juarez campaigns for the dead women of Ciudad Juarez

Lilia Alejandra is one of the 370 women who have disappeared in Mexico’s Chihuahua state since 1993. Her story is the main focus of Bajo Juárez, a documentary film that was five years in the making and opened here in Mexico this weekend.

11:29 am | Posted in advocacy,amnesty international,blood,Chihuahua,Ciudad Juarez,corruption,crime,culture,events,film,government,human rights,illegal,impunity,justice,kidnappings,media,violence,women | Read More »

Mexico memory march turns violent

Thousands of Mexicans took to the streets yesterday to demand justice for the victims of a mass-killing by Government troops on the night of October 2nd forty years ago. But the protests in Mexico City had a bitter end.

10:31 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,corruption,crime,culture,events,Felipe Calderon,freedom of speech,government,illegal,impunity,justice,la plaza,massacre,military,police,politics,protests,Tlatelolco,violence,Zocalo | Read More »

Marchers remember the dead of October 2nd 1968

Hundreds of students and other Mexicans congregated on Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma, Thursday at 3pm, to march in memory of the hundreds who died that night 40 years ago.

4:08 pm | Posted in photography,protests,Tlatelolco,violence,Zocalo | Read More »

Mexico to remember massacre 40 years later

Today, people of all ages will march in memory of a massacre that took place forty years ago in Mexico City – an event that remains one of the darkest in the country’s recent and bloody history.

10:32 am | Posted in blood,ciudad de mexico,corruption,crime,culture,events,government,human rights,illegal,la plaza,massacre,police,politics,protests,Tlatelolco,violence,Zocalo | Read More »

In Photos: Police torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution

Coyoacan is a sleepy (at least for Mexico City), leafy and green middle class suburb in the south of Distrito Federal, home to many of the capital’s intellectuals and politicians. Strolling along one its main drags – Avenida Mexico – is some of DF’s graffiti.

10:29 am | Posted in art | Read More »