Today marks the last day of Vicente Fox’s six year term as president of Mexico. For the last several decades, the end of a sexenio has always been marked by drama, either by some kind of financial collapse that has been staved off by the previous president so as to be hung around the neck […]
In a couple of months, you’ll need it to come visit…
Enrique Krauze writes:
Mexico is a country that is, all at once, pre-modern, modern, anti-modern and postmodern. This situation can have certain advantages, as those who appreciate the cultural mosaic of Mexico know, but there are times when it can be not just difficult but explosive.
Last Monday (the anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution […]
It’s really cold here in the DF right now. Yesterday a student in our English Club said he had to get his winter clothes out again after two years of not needing them. I’m sitting next to my portable heater hoping that it will warm me up enough to get ready for all of this […]
Word from central Dishman headquarters has it that John Leif Dishman was born at about 6AM this morning. No height/weight details are currently available.
I’m not sure where the name “Leif” came from (possibly a family name on Elizabeth’s side of the family?), but it surely has an adventuresome history in Leif Erikson, of whom “Explorers […]
It’s a dark day here at the UNAM. The sky is overcast, spitting rain on anyone who dares to walk abroad. Which means that anyone who has any sense is hanging out here, in the arquitecture cafeteria, drinking a ten peso mokachino by the grey light filtering through the sunroof three stories above. It was […]
Spiderman pledges to climb a skyscraper in Mexico City.