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Mexico City restaurant business battered by swine flu

Fonda Garufa, a restaurant in the trendy Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, is feeling the effects of the swine flu outbreak.

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Reactions in Mexican times of swine flu

The Internet really comes into its own during these times of swine flu. Here in Mexico, as many people sit out the crisis at home the Web is where many of them turn to express their feelings and stay in touch with what’s going on in the real world.

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Pig Flu Paranoia: Aporkalypse Now?

Julia Cooke writes — But I worried this morning as I reached for the glass of water on my nightstand. I can’t tell my mother that my throat hurts, because she’ll think it means that she has to buy me a ticket home immediately.

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Photo-blogging swine flu

Deanna Dent is an American photographer currently in Mexico City documenting what’s going on at ground level.

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Track the swine flu outbreak on Google Maps

Well, as usual, Google is ahead of the game. You can watch the cases of swine flu outbreak around the world pop up here on Google Maps….

7:19 am | Posted in health,swine flu outbreak | Read More »

Hospitals are my new Mexico City hangout

Over the course of the last three days I have been to five hospitals. I was expecting to find lines of people, all of them coughing into their government-issued face masks, winding around the block. Not so.

5:54 pm | Posted in ciudad de mexico,editorial,Felipe Calderon,government,health,mexicoreporter.com,swine flu outbreak | Read More »

Making fun of face masks in Mexico City

As the global media coverage of the swine flu outbreak continues around the world, here in Mexico City people are starting to see the light side of the situation.

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Video: Mexico City vendors feel the effects of swine flu

Local businesses are also starting to suffer as customers stay away. Watch the video for more.

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse in Mexico…

then Mexico gets hit by a 6.0 earthquake!

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Filming the knock-on effects of swine fly in Mexico City Sunday

I was out shooting all day in downtown Mexico City Sunday, trying to get a sense of how the swine flu outbreak is affecting local businesses.

7:08 am | Posted in children,ciudad de mexico,editorial,government,health,mexicoreporter.com,swine flu outbreak | Read More »

Swine flu doesn’t deter art fans in Mexico City

I at least expected to see fashionable versions of the blue face masks being combined with the latest clothes labels, but it wasn’t so.

5:22 pm | Posted in art,ciudad de mexico,culture,editorial,events,Felipe Calderon,government,health,kurimanzutto,media,mexicoreporter.com,police,united states | Read More »

Video: Killer women prepare for U.S. debut

The blood-soaked drama is about to hit U.S. TV screens, and the first episode of the first series goes out April 23 on Univision.

10:09 am | Posted in blood,ciudad de mexico,crime,culture,media,mexicoreporter.com | Read More »

Obama starts a new era in Mexico drive-by

I didn’t think I was going to be able to make it into work this morning. Not because of Mexico’s overloaded public transport system, but because U.S President Barack Obama was expected to arrive on his first visit to Mexico here in the country’s capital.