I won’t forget tonight. About an hour ago I shook the hand of Emiliano Zapata’s grandson, and shortly thereafter, the hand of Pancho Villa’s daughter, who is in her mid 90’s.
It went down at the premier of a new Mexican documentary, “Pancho Villa: La Revolución No Ha Terminado” at Cine Morelos in Cuernavaca. The [...]

On a rainy Cuernavaca morning, here in the middle of the Centro, I have stumbled across the exhibition of a fotógrafo that describes better where I live than anything I can imagine myself writing. It’s called México Tenochtitlán by Francisco Mata Rosas. It has been published as a book by Ediciones Era and is being [...]

The governments’ guns advance toward the University on this Day of the Dead.
The last time I passed through Oaxaca City was just under a year ago, a January morning just before the dawn began to look into the mirror of the sky. I walked from the bus station towards the center of the city as [...]