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Flour or corn tortillas?
I now realize that flour tortila love is a big part of my So-Cal identity, and I’m not the only one.
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.
Video: Mexico's butterfly reserve alights in the soul
They first catch the eye as tiny, ghost-like flashes. It takes a moment to fix the flitting shapes.
Video: Mexicans break kissing record
Mexicans are not a nation to shy away from public displays of affection. Thousands were in their element on Valentine’s Day when they came together in Mexico City’s Zocalo to break the Guinness world record for the biggest simultaneous kiss.
Can Obama sell cars in Mexico?
This car dealership in central Mexico City has a name that almost everyone will recognize.
Violence against journalists in Mexico exaggerated, says top prosecutor
Violence against journalists in Mexico is not as high as non-profit groups are reporting, said a top Mexican prosecutor yesterday.
MexicoReporter.com en español!
Ahora MexicoReporter.com esta en español! Usa el enlace de “translator” a la derecha. MexicoReporter.com is now available in Spanish – use the flag link on the right.
Plane crash "an accident", says Mexico government
The Mexico Government maintains that there is no sign of foul play surrounding the plane crash on Tuesday night here in Mexico City that killed interior minister Juan Camilo Mouriño.
Nov 4th: a night of highs and lows
I thought I knew what the big story was going to be last night as I headed out of the house to a small gathering of people at the apartment of a friend of mine.
Video: Texan Travels South for Knee Surgery
Paul Hambleton is a Texan who traveled south to get some minor knee-surgery done.
Photographer documents Mara Salvatrucha in prison
The intricate tattoos on the faces, chests, arms and legs of members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gangs of Los Angeles and Central America are on display this month in downtown Mexico City.
Marchers remember the dead of October 2nd 1968
Hundreds of students and other Mexicans congregated on Mexico City’s Paseo de la Reforma, Thursday at 3pm, to march in memory of the hundreds who died that night 40 years ago.
In Photos: Police torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution
Coyoacan is a sleepy (at least for Mexico City), leafy and green middle class suburb in the south of Distrito Federal, home to many of the capital’s intellectuals and politicians. Strolling along one its main drags – Avenida Mexico – is some of DF’s graffiti.
Arrests made in Mexico grenade attack raise questions
The arrests pose as many questions as they provide answers.
Nightmare bureaucracy in Mexico? Share your story.
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The Mexican government launched a competition Thursday to find the worst examples of inefficiency within the bureaucratic machine.
Morelia: informality characterizes bombing investigation
The most important thing that occurred to me as I’ve perused other media’s coverage, my own, and the scene itself, is how frighteningly informal the attitude of the authorities is to the crime scene itself.
Morelia bomb victim speaks, blood still on the streets
Rafael Bucio was waiting for his mother on the corner of the streets Madero and Quintana Roo in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico Monday night. Behind him, his wife Gloria Alvarez stood in the street with their three-month old child in her arms. They didn’t know that their lives were about to change forever.
“Lots of ambulances and patrol cars started to pass by going to the center – to the cathedral,” explained Bucio Wednesday afternoon from a hospital bed, broken bones in his arm and leg held together by pins. Blood seeped through the bandages onto the white cotton sheet covering the bed.
He was moving closer to his wife, away from the street corner, when he heard a thump.
Morelia: the aftermath.
Yesterday, the public paid their respects at a shrine to the side of the city’s main plaza in Morelia, remembering the seven people killed in Monday night’s bomb attack.
Mexico's drug violence is bad for business
The drug violence that continues to sweep across Mexico isn’t only damaging citizen confidence in the country’s government and public security. It also is taking a toll on Mexico’s economy, according to Treasury Secretary Agustin Carstens.
Photos: Peace march in Mexico
A girl wielded a photo of Monica Alejandrina, who was kidnapped in 2004, during this Saturday’s march for peace across Mexico.
Amateur bullfighting festival in Mexico ends with 23 injuries
More than 20 people were gored or injured by bulls this weekend in Huamantla in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala after taking on one of the 24 bulls let loose into the streets as part of an annual festival.
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