Tomorrow will be the first meeting for a Christian professors group at the UNAM (though as usual here, while the group will be primarily UNAM profs, it will also include teachers from other universities and even high schools). Somewhere between twenty and thirty profs should be there, so it could be a great opportunity to […]
Normally in the mid-afternoon on Fridays, I meet up with a group of engineering students to play some pool at a nearby hall. This week, however, we went to the annual football game between Engineering and Arquitecture, also known as the “Talon de la Mezcla”. The English translation of that phrase might be something like […]
Yesterday as I walked home from a choir practice on campus, I saw a sign for “The Gnostic Society” plastered around campus, complete with a whole slate of course offerings and the image of a sharply dressed man from the 50s. I guess some heresies never go away!
Che Guevera is quite the hero around here - on campus he has a whole hall dedicated to his memory in the Philosophy and Letters factulty. Students can be spotted regularly with Che’s image emblazoned on T-shirts, pant legs, backpacks. Sometimes his words even appear with his visage, sometimes translated into foreign languages.
Here’s an […]
Mexico and Venezuela recently withdrew their ambassadors - John Sweeney thinks it’s a trap right out of Castro’s playbook.
In the 18th century, the Panama Canal almost happened in Mexico. Two rivers, the Cuatzacoalcos and Tehuantepec, ran within thirty kilometers of each other on their journeys toward to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Why not build a short canal through the level ground between the rivers and finish the job?
The reason: no indigenous […]
Running down the southern slopes of Pico de Orizaba (the towering “tip of the horizon”) is the River of the Dogs. There, on the banks of that watery concourse, Maria Sabina wrote of the hallucinogenic “journey” that she often experienced using mushrooms native to the area. Soon, thousands of hippies descended into the valley, and […]
According to my Mexican Geography professor, slavery existed in Mexico for almost a century after being officially abolished.
According to the professor, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, foreign companies discovered that the northwestern coast of Mexico was an amazingly rich area for agriculture, with the capacity for multiple harvests each year. The […]
I’m taking a class called “The Religious Traditions of Mexico” on Friday evenings as part of my continued attempt to understand Mexican culture “from the inside”. A few weeks ago, I was looking forward to the presentation of a well-regarded academic and Dominican friar from the top Catholic university in town on Roman Catholicism […]
Fifa reports:
Mexico’s UNAM, whose coach Hugo Sanchez quit last week, ended a run of six defeats by beating Brazilian championship leaders Corinthians 3-0 to reach the Copa Sudamericana semi-finals.
I didn’t remember the game until I heard the roar of the crowd at the stadium a kilometer away. Reforma finally has the “play by play” interface […]