Monday - Pray for us as we follow up on this weekend’s fun. On Saturday, we went with students to see the Goya exhibit at the National Museum of Art. We had a small group, but had some good quality time with at least one of the students, who asked us if we might not […]
On Tuesday after our Bible study, Ruth and I visited a professor, met some of his graduate students, and then took a couple of buses to go to an event with one of the students. The presentation, the “festival of mother tongues”, turned out to be a collection of song and poetry in some of […]
The rector of the UNAM affirms the need for debate, discussion, and commitment to the “lay state”.
“Hay que plantearlo con claridad ahora que vienen los debates y discusiones, estos son los temas fundamentales para la ciudadanÃa; que nos digan los candidatos cuál es su postura ante el laicismo del Estado, cómo entienden este laicismo y […]
This Miami Herald editorial sums up perfectly Mexican sentiment over the recent Sheraton incident…
The bad neighbor
OUR OPINION: MEXICO INCIDENT RAISES SPECTER OF COLOSSUS OF THE NORTH
The expulsion of Cuban officials from a U.S.-owned hotel in Mexico City at the behest of the U.S. Treasury Department is an incident straight out of the Three Stooges school […]
Enrique Krauze, Editor in Chief of Letras Libres and author of Mexico: Biography of Power opines on July’s elections in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs. Read it all for a good introduction to what July elections mean for Mexico.
An article in the Mercury News entitled “Survival of Mexico’s long-dominant PRI in question” notes that:
Keeping the PRI afloat has been made harder thanks to the man whom all of Mexico now calls “The Precious Gov.”
That’s how Madrazo ally Mario Marin, the governor of Puebla state, is referred to in a recorded phone conversation with […]
The Daily Kent Stater reports:
Beginning Jan. 1, 2008, the United States will begin requiring all people entering the country to have a passport.
Currently, U.S. citizens do not need a passport to cross the land border between Canada or Mexico. Residents of Canada also enjoy freedom to enter the United […]
This is more of an event driven list, but we’ll move away from that later!
Monday - Pray for Ruth and I as we get organized for the week. Pray that the schedule for Ruth’s class will turn out well (they let you pick three options and then they assign you a schedule), and that it […]
We had our second English club this Friday from 1:00-2:30 out in Islas, and it was a veritable “gringo reunion” since we had two summer interns from last summer on site (Nathan, who is studying at the UNAM this semester; and Isaac, who is studying at the University of the Americas in Puebla this semester) […]
Last night I also went to the U2 concert here in Mexico City; I’ll try to post something on that later, but just imagine:
Over 70,000 (probably about 90,000) people crushed into the stands and onto the field of a stadium that has a seating capacity of 110,000
A massive stage with banks of 72 speakers on […]