Little Pedestrian takes on millions of cars in his big mission to make Mexico City streets safe.
In Mexico around 25,000 people have disappeared since the drug war began six years ago.
Aztec tiger or Aztec kitten?
The New York Times surveys Catholics around the world about what they want to see from the new pope. MexicoReporter.com provided the Mexico footage. See it here on the NYT website.
Slinging CDs in the crowded subways isn’t an easy gig. The vendors, known as vagoneros, walk from car to car offering music from cumbia to reggaeton on CDs stuffed into plastic sleeves.
Mezcal has been made in Mexico at least since the time of the conquistadors. For years, it was seen as the poorer cousin of the national drink, tequila. But now mezcal is making a return from the wilderness.
Its road safety record is among the world’s worst but, in Mexico’s capital, police wielding breathalysers are making a big difference
Obesity is a huge problem in Mexico. Diabetes is the country’s biggest killer and around two thirds of the population is overweight.
Thanks largely to vehicle emissions, Mexico City was once the world’s most polluted urban centre. But over the past decade, a focus on sustainable alternative transport has persuaded a growing number of citizens to leave their cars at home.
Mirna Cartagena knows all about regret. Now in her early thirties, she spent most of her twenties in jail after she was caught trying to transport cocaine and crystal meth across her home state of Sinaloa, Mexico.
Esteban Volkov is the 86-year-old grandson of Leon Trotsky, the Russian Marxist revolutionary and founder of the Red Army. Volkov, who followed Trotsky to Mexico when he sought exile there in 1937, recalls the two assassination attempts orchestrated by Stalin on his grandfather, the last of which was successful. Deborah Bonello for the Guardian.
August 10 2012 – Mexico City has a new mention in the Guinness Book of Records – for the world’s biggest sandwich. The victor was a 52 metre monster with over 70 fillings, and crews from 55 different restaurants worked on it. Deborah Bonello for AFP.
The Cerveceria Modelo made Corona synonymous with Mexico around the world – now it’s been taken over by a US firm. Instead, Mexican punters are developing a taste for stronger, niche beers, and micro-breweries are springing up to meet demand.
Telling the truth about the violence in Sinaloa is an especially dangerous profession. Even within Mexico, a country that now bears the ignominious title of being one of the most dangerous in the Americas for journalists, Sinaloa is among the worst, a black hole where few bother to try and describe what is happening.
It’s hard to be homosexual among all the macho men in Mexico, but in Juchitan de Zaragoza homosexuals have found a way to express their sexual preference.
July 4th 2012 – Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute has agreed to recount at least 50 percent of the ballots cast during last Sunday’s presidential elections following objections from left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obredor and protests around the country. Produced by MexicoReporter TV.
Coverage from yesterday’s presidential election here in Mexico. And further phoners with France 24
More than 79 million people are eligible to vote in Mexico’s presidential election. Deborah Bonello reports for MexicoReporterTV.
Up until a few weeks ago, the triumph of PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico’s upcoming presidential election seemed all but a done deal. But there are many who haven’t forgotten the PRI’s more than troubled past. For AFP by Deborah Bonello
A video on Sunday’s upcoming election, put together for the Economist with their correspondent Tom Wainright.
June 10 2012 – Members of the Mexican youth movement #YoSoy132 marched across Mexico City Sunday, protesting against the country’s media duopoly and the PRI candidate in the upcoming presidential election, Enrique Pena Nieto. Produced, shot and edited for AFP by Deborah Bonello.
Hundreds of people filed past the coffin of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes Wednesday in Mexico City’s Bellas Arts Museum. The writer died in hospital on Tuesday afternoon. Cientos de personas desfilaron este miércoles con emoción ante los restos mortales del escritor Carlos Fuentes. Sobre su ataúd depositaron libros, flores y mensajes de despedida.
A roundup of the footage I filed for AFP for the Pope, combined with the POOL footage from the official feed. See a package here on the issue of abortion in conjunction with the Pope’s visit, for AFP and GlobalPost.
Guanajuato is one of Mexico’s most religious, conservative states, and the birthplace of President Felipe Calderon’s center-right National Action Party. The pope’s decision to visit this town — and bypass Mexico City — sends a message to the country’s more liberal capital.
March 24 2011 – The Pope’s visit to Guanajuato this week will be celebrated by many, but definitely not by abortion campaigners. This Mexican state is the one of the strictest, banning abortion except in extreme cases of rape, and the courts don’t hesitate to jail women who dare to take matters into their [...]
Once overlooked in heavily Catholic Mexico, Evangelicals are on the rise.
March 20 2012 – The staged arrest of French woman Florence Cassez in Mexico back in 2005 puts an uncomfortable spotlight on the practice of putting suspects in front of the media even before they go in front of a judge. For AFP by Deborah Bonello
El Paso, one of the safest US cities, now hosts a growing number of human rights activists seeking to escape persecution in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most deadly city just across the border.
Jan 24 2012 – The Rarámuri, or Tarahumara, are going hungry. In the state of Chihuahua in Northern Mexico, where the indigenous tribe lives, drought and cold weather have made food scarce. The government and non-profits are handing out food, but handouts are only a short-term solution to the survival of the Tarahumara. Shot, produced [...]
December 20 2011 – Angels are appearing on street corners and at crime scenes in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city and the epicenter of the country’s drug-related violence. Not just for Christmas, the angels are youngsters dressing up to send their message that only God can save Juarez now. Shot, produced and edited for [...]
As many as seven million Mexicans will make the pilgrimage to Mexico City’s Basilica de Guadalupe this year to pay their respects to the Virgin de Guadalupe, one of Mexico’s most revered holy figures. Pilgrims come from all over Mexico to arrive here around the dates of December 11th and 12th to give their thanks. [...]
Three people were killed after armed gunmen stopped and opened fire on an ambulance in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. See the report here on AFP Spanish.
November 30 2011 – Miss Bala, a Mexican movie that is a current Oscar hopeful and inspired by true events, follows beauty queen Laura Guerrero in her violent downward spiral into the hands of organized crime. Filmed, produced and edited for AFP by Deborah Bonello.
November 11 2011 – The grieving families of six men who disappeared from a Mexican night club speak to TIME. Their story is among 170 cases of killing, torture and disappearances documented in a new Human Rights Watch report. This report was produced for Time Magazine by Deborah Bonello. Watch the video on Time’s website [...]
November 2 2011 – Day of the Dead in Mexico is usually a time for celebrating and remembering lost loved ones. But in the context of a brutal drug war that has cost 40,000 lives, the commemoration of the dead has taken on a more sombre tone this year. Below, other video edits from the [...]
November 1st 2011- Some DSLR video I had left over from an assignment this morning in Panteon de Delores, Mexico City, with some music thrown in. Seemed a shame to let it loiter on my flash cards.
Anonymity in Mexico is the only form of defence in the increasingly violent conflict involving the country’s drug cartels, government, media and public.
October 25 2011 – A dispatch for Time from a recent trip to Veracruz: In touristy Veracruz, Mexico, drug-related violence has spiked. After a recent wave of 80 killings, the federal government sent troops to patrol the city. But many still don’t feel safe See the video here on Time.com
October 19 2011 – Latest dispatch for AFP from my recent trip to Veracruz. Journalism in Mexico is under fire. As drug-related violence grows, so does the danger for reporters trying to cover it, often forcing them to flee, bow to outside influences or face the consequences. In the city of Veracruz, journalists are feeling [...]
October 18 2011 – A short video documentary by me for Univision on peace activist and poet Javier Sicilia and his potential to create real change here in Mexico. Watch the video here on Univision’s Tumbler.
The Economist: Mexico’s Economic Downturn
Makeshift: Abel Carranza’s Underground Beats
BBC Fast Track: Mezcal drink embraced again by Mexico
Guardian: Mexico City’s ‘alcoholímetro’ making headway in dangerous driving battle
AFP: Mexico’s lucha against obesity
Guardian: Mexico City on the road to cleaner air