Chiapas celebrates the Day of the Dead – gallery
This photo gallery shows how Day of the Dead is celebrated in Chiapas. January 1, 2006 by Craig ‘Cisco’ Dietz © 1999
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Puerto Escondido in December: A November 2001 update
In December 2000, I watched the sleepy fishing village of Puerto Escondido wake up from its summer slumber. When I arrived during the first week of the month, this beach town south of Oaxaca city hadn’t even begun to yawn and stretch from its months’ long, low-season nap. You could shoot a cannon down the […]
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Jose Garcia Olvera – El Professor De Los Pobres
Olvera has been teaching a choir in Santa Ana Tepetitlan, for boys aged six to 13 years old, five days a week for the last 23 years. The first time I hear the choir Ninos Cantores de Santa Ana, led by Professor Jose Garcia Olvera, is at the Jocotepec church. They have been asked to […]
Continue ReadingFamily Life At El Mirador
I doubt any experience Ernest Hemingway had in Spain, or Africa, or at The Compleat Angler on Bimini could top my entrance into family life at El Mirador. Daniel Casas, a man I never met, started building the El Mirador hotel in 1990 and it was completed in 1995. He died eight months before I […]
Continue ReadingLandscapes Of Mexico, Landscapes Of The Self
Mexico is a land of contrasts; I see this in both of my workplaces. Graffitied walls and worn picket fences; towering store signs and grazing cows; littered highways and rolling green hills – all of these images equally contradictory and impossible to imagine side by side. Yet, somehow these scenes are all strung together by […]
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Morelia: Cultural world heritage
The Spanish Virrey Don Antonio de Mendoza founded the city of Morelia back in 1541, calling it “Valladolid” after the city of the same name in Spain. In tribute to the national hero Don Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, leader of the movement for the national independence from the Spanish kingdom, the city was later […]
Continue ReadingCacahuamilpa Caverns, Guerrero – Grutas de Cacahuamilpa
The Cacahuamilpa Caverns (Grutas de Cacahuamilpa) in the state of Guerrero have attracted curious visitors for several centuries and were the first major cave system in Mexico to be opened up for regular tourism. In the early days of tourism, the Cacahuamilpa Caverns near Taxco (Guerrero) were a popular place to visit. The English traveler […]
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Mexico, a Higher Vision: Excerpts from the Prologue by Carlos Fuentes
Cogan’s Reviews To see Mexico from the air is to look upon the face of creation. Our everyday, earthbound vision takes flight and is transformed into a vision of the elements. This book is a portrait of water and fire, of wind and earthquake, of the moon and the sun. For it is we – […]
Continue ReadingMazatlan: Tequila, tans and working stiffs
Mazatlan has the virtues and vices of any tourist destination. But all the bad stuff – or good, depending on how you plan to spend the evening – is buffered by the decency and solidity of a working town. Unlike the hotel cities dreamed up by governments beholden to tourist dollars, Mazatlan, the second city […]
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Xilitla es un lugar mágico en el San Luis Potosi
Es tal la cantidad de obras construidas dentro de Xilitla que resultaría imposible enumerarlas, como este fragmento, de arcos, columnas y ventanas de los más encontrados estilos arquitectónicos hechas por el simple placer de sentir el viento, la humedad y la libertad que transpira a cada instante en este mágico lugar… Escaleras sin fin que […]
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