“Mexico” Mike Nelson will help you discover “real” Mexico. Mike is the author of 16 books on Mexico and psychological issues, and one of the few authors about Mexico who writes mainly about driving Mexico. He likes to find little-known places, not just beach resorts. He grew up on the Texas/Mexico border in Edinburg, Texas […]
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An opalescent sky muted the harshness of the emerald earth as the old car struggled up the rock-filled Mexican road, leaving the breeze blown coast behind. I had begun a journey deep into the verdant mountains of Oaxaca, peaks that faded into the haze, massive blue-gray shapes filled with mystery and magic… and little else. […]
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A first visit to Oaxaca, capital of Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, should begin at the zócalo, the town plaza. There’s always something going on there, for Oaxaca is a town of festivals: the Night of the Radishes on December 23, where farmers display fantastically carved giant radishes; the Festival of Lunes del Cerro (Monday of the Hill) in […]
Continue ReadingThis marinade is great for thick pieces of fish or fish kebobs destined for the grill. For a far superior flavor, try to use wood charcoal instead of “briquettes.” Ingredients 4 8-ounce tuna steaks, 1 inch thick 2 dried arbol chiles, crumbled (remove seeds if desired) 2 tablespoons finely chopped red onion 2 inch piece […]
Continue ReadingWe are tall, white, middle aged and well fed. They are short, dark and thin. We are foreigners and they are native born, “Indio”, indigenous. We are retired academicians and professionals and they are farmers, ” campesinos“, “peasants”. We are donors to a relief effort that was mounted in response to the devastating earthquake and monsoon rains […]
Continue ReadingFirst published in The London Observer/Guardian Foreign News Service Jan. 17, 2000 Anita Brown (my beautiful bride these twenty-two years) met a lady from Littleton, Colorado, on the way to downtown Cancun this morning. “Her daughter had the face of an angel,” she told me. “You think of someone like that lying in a pool […]
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