Tag: "ciudad de mexico"
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.
First Stop in the New World: Street Children in Mexico City
Her face is oval and nut-colored, with the enormous eyes of a gazelle. Montse’s expression is serious, cautious, pensative.
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.
First Stop in the New World: Where the Money is, and Isn’t
This week MexicoReporter.com is publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World,” which has just come out in paperback. The book is divided between long chapters that deal with topics of great importance in Mexico City (crime, inequality, food, sex and even shopping), and shorter chapters that provide [...]
First Stop in the New World: dollar-a-dance hostess
This week MexicoReporter.com will be publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World.”
Picture perfect this morning – Chapultepec lake
Clouds reflected in one of the lakes in Chapultepec Park early this morning.
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.
Mexico English-language daily sold; staff cut by two thirds
Mexico’s only national English-language daily newspaper The News, based here in Mexico City, was bought by a Mexican media company and laid off dozens of staffers over the weekend.
Mexico City museums ask for help after influenza
Visits to some of Mexico City’s museums have fallen by as much as 90% since the outbreak of the H1N1 virus last month that prompted a near shutdown of numerous facilities
Video: Mexican journalists put through their survival paces
A couple of non-profits got together and ran a course just outside Mexico City this month for 18 journalists living and working here.
Video: 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.
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.
Video: Swine flu outbreak brings quiet to Mexico City
– Deborah Bonello in Mexico City for La Plaza.
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.
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.
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
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