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Reaching the Pants on the Kilometer 13 Bus – with no taxi! (0)

2/03/10 •

Someday I will learn why the Kilometro 13 un-ceremoniously dumps passengers onto a bridge in the middle of nowhere.It could very well have been called the Kilometro 15 or 17 bus and actually continue on to somewhere useful.
I think it is extra assurance from God that Santa Fe is not meant for people but only [...]

US Corporations are “safe” but silent in Mexico Drug War (0)

2/02/10 •

This from el universal yesterday:
Los consorcios Bell, Dyncorp, Cessna y Harris son algunos de los que han recibido contratos del gobierno de Estados Unidos para fabricar los equipos.
Las empresas anteriores, junto con North Rop Grumman Corporation, declinaron comentar sobre los contratos, fondos, intereses o proyectos futuros en el marco de [...]

Bar Bar violated the law of “Cool” (0)

1/28/10 •

One thing has emerged from the outcry over the shooting of Paraguayan football star, Salvador Cabañas, at an Insurgentes Sur nightclub. Amid all the inspections of various nightclub codes and violations, don’t overlook one thing.
That nightclub is NOT COOL.  The photo at left is lifted from Chilango Banda and should give you an indication of [...]

Somewhere between New York and Puebla (0)

1/23/10 •

Being a resident of the east side of Mexico City makes me think about how hard life has been for people who have moved to this region. I know that more than 50% of the people who live here came from the countryside like I did. Mexico City is not London, New York or Paris but it is another city where people have come to find a better, like one of those cities but with the particularity that this is a third world city.

Mexico City’s Farmacia Paris (0)

1/22/10 •

More than a pharmacy, Mexico City’s Farmacia Paris is a trip into the past, the future, the body, science, chemistry, medicine and a few other areas.

Come see the newest addition to our Map of Mexico City Museums!!!

Under Mexico City: Tlalpan (0)

1/22/10 •

We’re wanting to be ready for some big events coming up, way south, in Tlalpan and for that we needed this Tlapan map up and ready too. Cristina has been working night and day on some useful tourist and tourism info for spots in and around both Ajusco and further south in Tepoztlan.
We did, already [...]

Beyond la Marquesa (0)

1/18/10 •

This is a little beyond what Isaac wrote in his own article on the same trip. His photos are better than mine, but I’ve gone into a bit more detail for the English language audience.
Mexico City is always an adventure. But as more and more businesses have moved into the far west of the city [...]

Drag on Cortés (0)

1/14/10 •

Time to put on your fishnet stockings, glittery dresses and shimmering eye-shadow – BOYS – the show is about to begin.
I went to my first drag show here in Cuernavaca, Mexico, last night…and it definitely won’t be my last.
After so much macho culture, the bar that held the show – Enigma – is a refreshing [...]

HOY & LMU’s 1st LGBT-gender participatory trip (1)

1/13/10 •

Coming into the dining room at Casa HOY, I was greeted by a sea of smiling, open faces. The trip had begun. Loyola Marymount University sent a group of 8 students and 2 staff to participate in HOY’s new LGBT-gender based volunteer trip this January 4-16 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
This trip is one of HOY’s new [...]

Between el DF and Toluca – Little Known Estado de México (1)

1/12/10 •

A winter drive in the Valle de Toluca…
Translated from Isaac Vasquez’s original at eldefe.com.
January 11 of 2010 was marked on my calendar with a red pen: the return to classes, the end of the idle and disorderly life that I’ve been maintaining since mid-December. In order to sing Las Golondrinas “The Wanderers” – appropriately in [...]

Immigration belongs to the Poblanos (0)

1/08/10 •

Rafael Zafra is studying English language writing with the ExpEnglish Blogging Program. A student in International Relations at UNAM in Mexico City, his posts in Spanish are published on eldefe.com.
By the time my mother arrived in Mexico City from Puebla…
…looking for a better future, most of her family had already emigrated even further. She [...]