Archive for April, 2009
Video: 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.
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.
Photo-blogging swine flu
Deanna Dent is an American photographer currently in Mexico City documenting what’s going on at ground level.
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….
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.
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.
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.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse in Mexico…
then Mexico gets hit by a 6.0 earthquake!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Video: ‘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.
Video: ‘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.
Video: 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.
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.
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.
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