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Video: Bank of Mexico Governor sees ‘coordination improvement’
Agustin Carstens, the recently appointed governor of the Bank of Mexico, talks about his predecessor as well as future plans for the bank and its relationship with Mexico’s federal government.
Click here and here for the two videos produced for the Financial Times. Thanks to Greg Brosnan, of Streetdog Media, for being the second cameraman, and the FT [...]
Mexican activist fights for the rights of migrants as town is split
Central American migrants have long passed through Tultitlán on their way north to the United States because the trains on which the migrants ride north pass nearby. The mayor of Tultitlán says the number of migrants arriving has increased over recent months and wants them deported, but local activist Paty Camarena continues to fight for their rights.
Filmmakers document consequences of U.S. immigration raid
Back in May 2008, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rounded up 389 undocumented workers in the Agriprocessors Inc. kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. The raid was the largest in U.S history.
Two weeks later, filmmakers Jennifer Szymaszek and Greg Brosnan started filming “In the Shadow of the Raid,” a documentary film showing at the [...]
Video: Heavy rains in Mexico can’t beat the drought
Although Mexico is currently in the grip of the worst drought it has suffered since World War Two, houses flooded and streets turned into lakes this week when torrential rainfall lashed down on Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico.
Death in El Salvador
The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding.
Video: Mexico’s drought leaves city dwellers and countryside high and dry
Crops are wilting in the countryside, and the capital’s water shortage has turned dire as Mexico grapples with its worst drought in more than half a century.
See the Los Angeles Times report here.
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Video: ‘I’ve never been afraid’: Director, recently slain, talks about filming El Salvador’s gangs
Photographer and filmmaker Christian Poveda was shot dead in El Salvador Sept. 2, 2009. He spent more than 16 months, every day, with the mara gangs of San Salvador to make the 2009 documentary “La Vida Loca.” This is footage from an interview conducted by the Los Angeles Times’ Deborah Bonello with Poveda a few [...]
Mexico City fans practice Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ moves
Mexico City’s Michael Jackson fans got together Tuesday morning to practice the recently deceased singer’s famous “Thriller” dance in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes downtown.
Video: Mexico City mural makeover
A government project mobilized more than 1,000 youngsters earlier this month to clean up and repaint a graffiti-covered wall in the south of the city, as part of an urban spruce-up scheme for the summer.
On the road with Mexico’s young military
It was disconcerting to see the age of the soldiers executing Calderon’s stop and search policy.
Video: Mexican day laborers are ‘Los Bastardos’ in fictional work
At first glance, “Los Bastardos” seems a surprising film for a Mexican director to make.
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma spotlights Mexico
The Dart Center, a Colombia University project for journalists who cover violence, got in touch with me after I published a video report on survival training for journalists in Mexico earlier this year.
Nearly 10,000 migrant kidnappings in Mexico in 6 months
During that period, 9,758 migrants were deprived of their liberty. More than 60 percent of kidnappings involved groups of migrants travelling together. The majority of those kidnapped were from Honduras (67 %). ¡8% oer the victims were from El Salvador and 13% from Guatemala.
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: 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.
Video: Gabriel Orozco opens solo show in Mexico City
Gabriel Orozco, the Mexican contemporary artist, has opened his first solo show in three years in Mexico City. Crowds turned up last month to the unveiling at the Kurimanzutto art gallery despite the H1N1 flu alert alarming the city at the time.
An A-Z of the swine flu epidemic – from an armchair perspective
Apocalyptic doom scenarios, Bootleg Tamiflu, Compulsive news checking – the A-Z goes on…..
Video: Swine flu outbreak brings quiet to Mexico City
– Deborah Bonello in Mexico City for La Plaza.
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Talking violence in Texas
Last week, I was invited to speak at the University of Texas Pan America about MexicoReporter.com, violence against journalists, the drug war coverage and how new technologies are contributing to the journalism beast. So I went.
