Readings: Weather Drama, Drug War Trauma
Rain and Ice Storm, July 19, 2009, Northern Mexico City (click image to enlarge)
“Mexico City in the Summer? It must be so hot!”
I love hearing that. I shot the photo at left yesterday in my own neighborhood. Of course some friends just two neighborhoods to the south said, when I asked, “Oh I guess it rained a little bit.”
Summer weather in Mexico City is dramatic, refreshing, usually cooler rather than hotter and – while you may get caught in an uncomfortable situation – you won’t be trapped for days with either miserable rain nor unbearable heat. Everyday’s downpour is refreshing and renewing, and while most are not as dramatic in terms of crashing ice, it is always a good way to break up the day.
- If that’s not enough skewed perceptions about Mexico City, see the before and after photos at eldefe. (in Spanish, but you’ll survive.) Below is a sample.
- From Xico is giving MexFiles a run for their money as the go-to blog for insight on Mexico-US politics. This post on the drug-war is excellent follow up to all of the truly good work that MexFiles has been doing.
…the drug thuggery is really woven into a much more extensive and grave set of problems which exist between the US and Mexico and which in fact are the results of the ruthlessness of neoliberal economics.
~sigh~
- For pure good news, there’s news the airport has hired 60 people in wheelchairs who’d otherwise have a tough time of it: “Another beneficiary is the Mexican government, now at the vanguard of the disabled-rights movement in the developing world.” That last bit from the original at the Economist.
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