Along with your mace, decoy debit card and hand sanitizer, you never want to leave your camera at home when you’re walking around Chilangoladia. You might see a basket of puppies or a Quinceañera girl - [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 7, 2009
Guillermo Jean
Remember the Cumbia de la Influenza? The AH1N1 virus had scarcely become a Twitter trending topic and some tipos had already written and recorded a song about Indiana Jones rescuing Chilangolandia. Couple that anecdote with the fact that on any given night in Mexico there’s a DJ somewhere playing “Rock With You,” or “Beat It” [...]
July 7, 2009
Riding Lessons at the Poles
I’ve been working on a profile of a candidate who ran for a municipal election, so on Sunday it was off to the polls. (That man in the picture is not the candidate. He’s part of the 30 percent of the population that turned up to vote.)
I was told by the campaign manager to arrive [...]