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Video: “Tracing Aleida” director on making the film and Mexico’s “dirty war”

Video: “Tracing Aleida” director on making the film and Mexico’s “dirty war”

| June 29, 2009 | Comments (0)

This is a longer version of an edited interview with the director Christiane Burkhard about her documentary film project, “Tracing Aleida”.

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Intersections of Mexico City and Los Angeles

Intersections of Mexico City and Los Angeles

| June 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

For those of you who follow other bloggers here in Mexico City, or are a regular visitor to my links, you will know Daniel Hernandez, creator of Intersections, and an author and journalist living here in Mexico City. Daniel is currently in Los Angeles where he is going to be speaking at MOCA as part [...]

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Journalists reporting, and surviving, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

Journalists reporting, and surviving, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico

| June 24, 2009 | Comments (1)

The Committee for the Protection of Journalists reports on journalists working in the northern border town of Ciudad Juarez.

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Frontline discussion: Narco wars Mexico

Frontline discussion: Narco wars Mexico

| June 24, 2009 | Comments (1)

Broadcast live on Ustream, June 24th 2009 Moderator: Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News Panel:Ed Vulliamy, Guardian and Observer journalist and writer Alex Tweddle

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Graphic amusement: What a wonderful country

Graphic amusement: What a wonderful country

| June 19, 2009 | Comments (1)

Blumpi: What a wonderful country

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Cafe Tacuba Uncut

Cafe Tacuba Uncut

| June 19, 2009 | Comments (1)

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.

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More jump ship from The News

More jump ship from The News

| June 17, 2009 | Comments (2)

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.

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Video: Gallery takes graffiti off the streets

Video: Gallery takes graffiti off the streets

| June 12, 2009 | Comments (1)

“Cavemen Did It First” is the first permanent art space in the city dedicated exclusively to graffiti.

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First Stop in the New World: Taxi Ride

First Stop in the New World: Taxi Ride

| June 12, 2009 | Comments (0)

This is the final in our 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 [...]

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BorderReporter: God's Gonna Cut You Down

BorderReporter: God's Gonna Cut You Down

| June 11, 2009 | Comments (1)

What happened here last week was a sheer massacre.

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First Stop in the New World: the Reality of Crime

First Stop in the New World: the Reality of Crime

| June 11, 2009 | Comments (1)

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 [...]

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Latest editor at the News laid off

Latest editor at the News laid off

| June 9, 2009 | Comments (2)

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.

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First Stop in the New World: dollar-a-dance hostess

First Stop in the New World: dollar-a-dance hostess

| June 8, 2009 | Comments (2)

This week MexicoReporter.com will be publishing a series of extracts from David Lida’s book “First Stop in the New World.”

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Editorial: The News – what about the writers?

Editorial: The News – what about the writers?

| June 1, 2009 | Comments (3)

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.

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Video: Training Day

Video: Training Day

| May 30, 2009 | Comments (1)

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.

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Remembering '85

Remembering '85

| May 27, 2009 | Comments (0)

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.

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Schweppes pulls ad campaign after flu crack falls flat

Schweppes pulls ad campaign after flu crack falls flat

| May 22, 2009 | Comments (5)

Controversial ad campaigns about Mexico seem to keep popping up.

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Mexico City writer inspires Saldamando in California

Mexico City writer inspires Saldamando in California

| May 20, 2009 | Comments (0)

Artist Shizu Saldamando was inspired by Mexico City-based writer Daniel Hernandez.

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Video: Military’s drug museum shows narco tactics

Video: Military’s drug museum shows narco tactics

| May 11, 2009 | Comments (0)

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.

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Visual artist's work is fitting during flu outbreak

Visual artist's work is fitting during flu outbreak

| May 2, 2009 | Comments (0)

Mexican-Canadian visual artist Alec Dempster, who lives in Xalapa in the state of Veracruz, got in touch to send us some images of his that are part of a series called “Toxic Love.”

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Reactions in Mexican times of swine flu

Reactions in Mexican times of swine flu

| April 30, 2009 | Comments (1)

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.

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Hospitals are my new Mexico City hangout

Hospitals are my new Mexico City hangout

| April 28, 2009 | Comments (2)

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.

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