The Economist: A natural wonder
The monarch butterfly is known for its epic trek across the Americas, but its numbers have waned. Now the insect is making a comeback. This video was shot and edited for the Economist by Deborah Bonello.
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MRTV: Mexican public opinion turns against Calderon’s ‘drug war’
No Mas Sangre (No More Blood), a social protest group that began life as a cartoon, took to the streets of Mexico City on a recent weekend. They were in protesting what they see as a failed policy – President Felipe Calderon’s campaign against the country’s drug cartels and organized crime. But how representative are they of the Mexican people?
MRTV – Butterflies, Narcos and Broadcasters
February 25th 2011 – Mexico’s migrant monarch butterflies in the state of Michoacan see less visitors as tourists are put off by press reports of narco violence. After being fired for asking Mexico President Felipe Calderon to respond to rumors that he has an alcohol problem, outspoken broadcaster and journalist Carmen Aristegui returned to the airwaves. And drug-related violence for the first time claimed the life of a US security agent – we ask what it means for US/Mexico relations.
Central American Migrants in Mexico Fill The Frame
Marc had Gael Garcia Bernal on board as his presenter, and has produced some excellent advocacy work. “Los Invisibles” (the invisibles) series is beautifully produced and shot, giving voice to a community rarely asked it’s opinion.
Film that highlights migrant plight in awards final
To all of those in Mexico and around the world, I thought you might be interested in this post on my generic TheVideoReporter.com site about a documentary film by filmmakers Jennifer Szymaszek and Greg Brosnan making into the final for the Rory Peck Awards.
3:17 am | Posted in culture,editorial,film,immigration,journalism,media,mexico,migrants,video | Read More »
Will Mexico Let in Foreign Oil Money?
National oil company Pemex struggles as oil production drops. Carola Hoyos reports from Mexico for the Financial Times. Filmed, produced and edited by Deborah Bonello.
6:53 am | Posted in Economy,Felipe Calderon,Financial Times,government,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,video | Read More »
Mexico’s same sex marriage controversy
Marriage between same-sex couples in Mexico City will become legal in early March. But Adam Thomson explains how the new rules are proving controversial and opponents are planning to take it to the Supreme Court. Produced by Deborah Bonello for the Financial Times.
8:05 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,culture,events,Financial Times,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,video | Read More »
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 [...]
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.
11:17 am | Posted in asylum,immigration,mexicoreporter.com,migrants,Photos on MR,video | Read More »
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 [...]
12:08 pm | Posted in culture,editorial,film,immigration,journalism,mexicoreporter.com,migrants,united states,video | Read More »
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.
4:48 pm | Posted in ciudad de mexico,environment,government,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,video,water | Read More »
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.
8:16 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,environment,government,health,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,video,water | Read More »
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 [...]
7:06 pm | Posted in christian poveda,crime,culture,film,mara salvatrucha,united states,video,violence | Read More »
Video: Hairless dogs in competition; meet Mexico’s Xoloitzcuintles
Spend any time on the streets of Mexico, and you will eventually see them. Mexico’s hairless brown or red-skinned dogs — the Xoloitzcuintle (pronounced sholo-squint-lay).
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.
10:32 am | Posted in ciudad de mexico,culture,government,graffiti,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,video | Read More »
Mexican day laborers are ‘Los Bastardos’ in fictional work
At first glance, “Los Bastardos” seems a surprising film for a Mexican director to make.
10:15 am | Posted in arms,blood,crime,culture,film,illegal,immigration,mexico,migrants,united states,video,violence | Read More »
Mexico’s Rivera murals get restoration treatment
Mexico City’s Diego Rivera murals are undergoing restoration treatment.
Canadian Embassy besieged by Mexicans
The Canadian Embassy in Mexico City’s posh Polanco neighbourhood has been descended upon by thousands of Mexicans since the Canadian government announced on Monday that Mexican nationals now need a visa to travel to Canada.
9:35 am | Posted in asylum,canada,ciudad de mexico,editorial,government,immigration,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,migrants,video | Read More »
“Tracing Aleida” director on making the film and Mexico’s “dirty war”
This is a longer version of an edited interview with the director Christiane Burkhard about her documentary film project, “Tracing Aleida”.
Frontline discussion: Narco wars Mexico
Broadcast live on Ustream, June 24th 2009 Moderator: Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News Panel:Ed Vulliamy, Guardian and Observer journalist and writer Alex Tweddle
Cafe Tacuba Uncut
For the hardcore Cafe Tacuba fans out there, here is the uncut material from the interview that I did with two of the band members.
8:21 am | Posted in Cafe Tacuba,ciudad de mexico,culture,editorial,mexico,mexicoreporter.com,music,video | Read More »
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.
American design duo launches arts and culture mag in Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s culture, arts and music scene is the focus of a new magazine launched by two American designers living in the country’s capital, Managua.
Training Day
May 30 2009 – 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.
Mexican journalists put through their survival paces
May 29 2009 – A couple of non-profits got together and ran a course just outside Mexico City this month for 18 journalists living and working here.
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.
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.
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.
Camilo Lara, a.k.a MIS, gets ready to play Coachella
Camilo Lara is the sole member of the Mexican Institute of Sound, and I had the pleasure of interviewing him in his Mexico City home
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ in Iztapalapa, Mexico
It wasn’t hard to imagine what the real crucifixion of Christ might have been like if you were anywhere near the populous, working-class neighborhood of Iztapalapa in Mexico City last Friday.
10:24 am | Posted in blood,culture,events,Iztapalapa,la plaza,mexicoreporter.com,Photos on MR,police,religion,video | Read More »
‘La Vida Loca’ captures daily reality of El Salvador’s gangs, or maras
“La Vida Loca” reflects a depressing and hopeless reality. The documentary follows some of the members of ”la dieciocho,” the so-called 18th Street gang in a poor San Salvador neighborhood.
4:33 pm | Posted in blood,christian poveda,crime,culture,film,illegal,immigration,la plaza,migrants,video,violence | Read More »
Jesus as a migrant in pro-immigration street theater
The performance wasn’t part of Mexico’s traditional Semana Santa but had a cross-border purpose.
9:35 am | Posted in advocacy,border patrol,ciudad de mexico,crime,culture,events,government,human rights,illegal,immigration,media,mexicoreporter.com,migrants,video | Read More »
Eufrosina Cruz: Indigenous women’s rights vs. culture in Mexico
Cruz is a 28-year-old indigenous woman from the state of Oaxaca who is an activist for the rights of indigenous women. Cruz rebelled against the restrictions of her own community to become a college-educated accountant.
2:03 pm | Posted in advocacy,culture,events,indigenous,mexicoreporter.com,Oaxaca,video,women | Read More »
Peter Gabriel asks for end impunity over Ciudad Juarez’s dead women
Peter Gabriel implored President Calderon to show “real political will, muscle and budget” in investigating the hundreds of unsolved murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez.
‘Those Who Remain’ focuses on families left behind in Mexico by migrants
The homes that Mexican migrants come from are often a jumping-off point for filmmakers, but Rulfo and Hagerman chose to stay at the point of departure to see how those who remain deal with their reduced numbers.
2:10 pm | Posted in culture,events,film,Guadalajara,illegal,immigration,mexico,migrants,video | Read More »
From the archives: Be an illegal immigrant for a day
In El Alberto, a small village over 1000km from the border between Mexico and the US, tourists can pay to experience what it’s like being an illegal migrant.
11:27 am | Posted in culture,events,illegal,immigration,la caminata nocturna,mexicoreporter.com,migrants,video | Read More »
Photojournalism show explains 2008 in Mexico
Mexico City’s Museo de la Ciudad is playing host to a photojournalism exhibition — Expofotoperiodismo — that features nearly 50 photos from 2008.
3:20 pm | Posted in art,blood,bombings,ciudad de mexico,Ciudad Juarez,cocaine,corruption,crime,culture,drugs,events,human rights,illegal,immigration,journalism,kidnappings,la plaza,media,migrants,military,narcotraffick,newspapers,photography,police,politics,protests,Tijuana,video,violence | Read More »
Legal graffiti hits the walls of Mexico City
In a country with such a rich artistic heritage of mural-ism, graffiti is a popular past-time for many of Mexico´s youth.
11:01 am | Posted in art,ciudad de mexico,crime,culture,events,graffiti,Iztapalapa,mexicoreporter.com,video | Read More »
Cars inspire Mexican artist’s show with a green message
Mexico visual artist Betsabee Romero used cars to create installations for “A vuelta de rueda (driving slowly),” an outdoor exhibition in downtown Mexico City that has a decidedly green feel to it.
Photo Gallery
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Univision: Young angels in Juarez battle the city’s demons
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AFP: Mexico City struggles with waste disposal
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AFP: Activists under fire in Mexico
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AFP: Ambulance attacked in Ciudad Juarez
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Time: Evidence of Killings and Disappearances by Mexico’s Security Forces
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AFP: Mexicans honor drug war victims on Day of the Dead