Perhaps not the most interesting piece of information to translate and post, but I was interested to know of the existence of this huge association, the fact that an UNAM official was involved in leadership, and the call for improved state aid. If you are bored by the following four bits, just skip them! […]
Looks like bicycling is beginning to take off in Mexico City, at least from the looks of this news item from Reforma published a few days ago and translated below. I’m hoping to figure out how to secure and to use my “non-polluting mode(s) of transportation” in the big city!
“Capital citizens draw near to […]
“DF is second in cases of AIDs”
by Anayansin Inzunza (translated from Reforma)
Mexico City (July 28, 2004) – With an accumulation of 13,582, the Federal District occupies second place in the country in the incidence of AIDs, with a rate of 154 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to statistics from the National Center for the Prevention […]
“Divorces rise among residents of the capital”
By Grupo Reforma (translated from Reforma)
Mexico City (July 28, 2004) – The divorce level has gone up by 15% in the last two years, and for every official divorce, four couples that live in “open union” separate, reports the National Institute for Statistics, Geography and Information for the National […]
“50% of homicides are solved in the DF”
By Luis R. Ocampo (Translated from Reforma)
Mexico City (July 28, 2004) – Of the nearly 700 homicides that are committed every year in the city, 50% remain unsolved, admitted Guillermo Zayas, district attorney for homicides of the attorney general of the DF.
Every day an average of […]
Hadn’t posted an update lately, so I thought I would drop a note to say I’m currently in Atlanta at Simpsonwood retreat center doing RUF training. So far, the training has been great, and the retreat center is not half bad either! One more week here and then back to Texas for examinations…
A very interesting and recent article in Reforma described the state of religious organizations this way…
“Religious offerings grow in Mexico”
By David García Escamilla
Mexico City (16 July 2004) - Religious offerings in Mexico have extended in the last few years from groups connected to Christianity to the newest expressions of the New Age.
In August of […]
Almost ten years ago, my mother bought me a sturdy blue duffle and a matching garment bag. “You need to have some good luggage,” she said. Sadly, good luggage has a life span of about ten to fifteen years, and thanks to a misaligned conveyor belt or baggage handler and a good bit […]
From TVNZ:
Mexico’s attorney general said he had had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted.
Attorney General Rafael Macedo said a number of his staff had also been fitted with […]
From today’s Reforma…
“The book demands a certain respect because it represents culture”, argues Moises Dias, employee of the Educal bookstore located in Donceles, explaining why those who set up their booths and offer pirated literary works, scholarly texts and best-sellers display absolutely no concern about police operations which attempt to prevent illegal commerce in the […]