"Time Out" Mexico City and the Best of Mexico (Time Out Mexico City & the Best of Mexico)
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
However mild the pandemic may seem, its economic impact has been serious and long-lasting. Via La Jornada: Cerraron 8,500 negocios en la ciudad de México. [8,500 businesses close in Mexico City] Excerpt, with my translation:El sector comercio, servicios y turismo...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
MEXICO CITY.- With the planting of 3,000 endemic trees, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) concluded reforestation of vulnerable areas at Chichen Itza Archaeological Zone, in Yucatan, with the aim of counteracting deforestation at the Maya site, caused by natural events such as draught. The forestation program was developed with the support of the National Defense Ministry (SEDENA),...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
MIAMI, FL.- The Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida is the third stop on the tour for "Invasion 68: Prague", an exhibition and accompanying book presenting legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka's remarkable work documenting the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. The show in Miami follows a successful kick off at Aperture Gallery in New York in the fall of 2008, followed...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Shanghai, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Kuala Lumpur. Those are just a few of the foreign airports of call Sacramento County Airport Director Hardy Acree has visited over the last two years. His even more extensive domestic travels have taken him to Washington D.C., Las Vegas, Dallas, Chicago and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., among other places – at least one trip and sometimes more every month....
Relevant Science (Free subscription) | yesterday
I am not a fan of this sport. I played soccer when I was a kid in Mexico City, I never went to a single Lucha Libre fight, even though, the place was somehow near my home. However, I am a fan of Superbarrio . Heather Levi says about him: "There was no way to co-opt him because he didn't exist. He was incorruptible because he both existed but at the same time didn't exist." He got a lot done...
PoliBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Via the LAT: Honduras’ upcoming vote a boon to de facto rulers Reporting from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Mexico City — The de facto rulers of Honduras will observe more than elections Sunday: They staged the first military-backed coup in Central America in 16 years — and got away with it. Months of international efforts failed to reinstate [...]
Whispers in the Loggia (Free subscription) | yesterday
For all the words of Irish decline in recent days, it seems an especially good moment to note that the increasingly dominant face in the life of American Catholicism (North and South alike) gets its biggest annual turn again two weeks from today with the "Super Bowl": the 12 December feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe ... which has indeed become bigger than Christmas in the Stateside church....
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A street vendor-turned-politician has thrown Mexico City's most populous district into political chaos by trying to reclaim the post of borough chief he won as a stand-in candidate in July elections.
American Leftist (Free subscription) | yesterday
An excerpt from a typically masterful analysis by Laura Carlsen, director of the Americas Policy Program in Mexico City: The militarization of Mexico has led to a steep increase in homicides related to the drug war. It has led to rape and abuse of women by soldiers in communities throughout the country. Human rights complaints against the armed forces have increased six-fold. Even these stark figures...
Adventure of Strategy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posting today from Miami International Airport on my way to London and thereafter to Mexico City to deliver a keynote address on current global trends and their likely impact on the legal profession at the Lex Mundi 2009 Latin...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
A street vendor-turned-politician has thrown Mexico City's most populous district into political chaos by trying to reclaim the post of borough chief he won as a stand-in candidate in July elections.
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
The price of disunity in a dangerous world BY: Tom Tancredo While speaking recently at American University in Washington, D.C., a student asked me a provocative question. "If what you say is true about culture being so important, don’t we owe the Native Americans an apology for invading this continent and destroying their culture?" To the student’s surprise, I answered, "Yes,...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The de facto leaders appear to have gotten away with a military-backed coup. Not only have efforts to restore the ousted leader failed, but the U.S. has said it will recognize a new presidential vote. Reporting from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Mexico City -- The de facto rulers of Honduras will observe more than elections Sunday: They staged the first military-backed coup in Central America in 16 years...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's central bank is holding its benchmark interest rate at 4.5 percent for the fourth consecutive month.
causa nostrae laetitiae (Free subscription) | yesterday
The sad fact is that thanks to Obama rejecting the Mexico City Policy, the US is exerting pressure on Uruguay to approve abortion in this Sunday's election. Read "international population groups"in the quote below. That's our tax dollars at work, in the UNPopulation Fund and Planned Parenthood, pressuring other nations to ignore their consciences. "Uruguayan affiliates of Human Life...
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