Category: editorial
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.
More jump ship from The News
Only four of the original 14 people rehired by Grupo Mac to man the News, Mexico City’s struggling English-language newspaper, remain at the title.
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.
How Cafe Tacuba sprained my ankle
This is probably the least exciting location from which I have filed a dispatch. My sofa, in my third-floor apartment, my snowball-like foot propped up on a couple of cushions as I look out onto the cloudy Mexico City panorama this morning. What happened? Well, it’s all Cafe Tacuba’s fault really. I interviewed two of [...]
Latest editor at the News laid off
The most recently appointed editor at the English language newspaper here in Mexico City the News has left the title after just a week in the job.
Editorial: The News – what about the writers?
I wanted to add more details to the dispatch I filed today for the Los Angeles Times and MexicoReporter.com on the changes at the News. There were some details that didn’t seem worth including for the LATimes readers, but I wanted to share them with you here.
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.
Remembering '85
We had an earthquake last Friday. It was the second in a month also blighted by a new strain of influenza and economic recession – but that’s what life’s currently like here in Mexico.
Our man gets a mention
This has nothing to do with Mexico. But it DOES have something to do with MexicoReporter.com- and that’s the recognition of co-founder Mike Butcher as one of “The 10 Men a UK Female Internet Entrepreneur Should Know when Starting and Growing a Business,” according to the Next Woman business magazine. “Mike Butcher truly is journalist [...]
Taxi-driver conspiracy theory on swine flu outbreak
If you’ve spent any time in Mexico, especially Mexico City, then you’ll be acquainted with Mexicans’ love of conspiracy theory.
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.
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.
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.
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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