6,25/10"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country
A European nobleman traveling through the new independent state
Mexico
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6,25/10
Impossible creatures
What are the alebrijes?
Australia: the remains of the oldest culture in the world
The statue of Queen Victoria is untainted. In Mexico City, Columbus was always the red paint and a perennial sign of genocide. Here there is hardly anyone to throw paint indigenous sovereign venerated, while in Mexico live 11 million indigenous and 93% population is mestizo.
Another umbilical cord around the globe
How can you not have fun in a country that Disney invented a children's film that deals with death? How not want to decipher a country with unpronounceable volcanoes are lovers? How not a surprise that pays street musicians to brighten their spicy foods because they like people mourn and laugh at the same time? How can we not admire a place that when you see her insides shaking more hands than rubble?
Batopilas, Magic Town
Mexico has been filled with magical towns. It is true that this country has never had to be short of magic, But for some time now, the Ministry of Tourism's wand must have gotten out of hand because it has spilled out in gushes throughout its geography..
Oaxaca earthquake: aids and theft after castátrofe
What kind of human being you have to be to steal what remains of some rubble? To take possession of aid delivered millions of people generously? There are also other. Many more. Many more people willing to help, to give half of what you have even very little. All that was seen in Juchitán. The very good and the very bad. All that is capable of man.
Trip to Wirikuta, the sacred mountain of the Huichol
"When you go to the burned one you will find stones and that is our heart. For mining the stones are treasures but for us is our heart. If we allow them to digs we do not know what tunnels they will do and if they were going to get our hearts out of the burn hill "...
The cemetery of skulls and the chocolate of the dead
The dying person was cared for by their relatives at home. Cuando fallecía eran los más cercanos los que en el velatorio realizaban el P'O'Keban. They very carefully cleaned the body without touching the sexual areas with a damp cloth.. With that water, according to the economic means of the family, a chocolate was made, the wealthiest, and those with less resources a well
The women of the Casa Xochiquetzal
I found them to be especially brave and strong people. I realized that they had never said a single bad word from anyone, even of those near or far who destroyed their lives. They always narrated everything without rancor.
The suicides of the rarámuri
The wave of suicides of this native town, forgotten like so many in this Mexico in a hurry to get to the present, had a first voice of alarm early in 2012. Then, The Organized Front of Indigenous Peasants denounced that "indigenous women, when they haven't been able to feed their children for four or five days, become sad."; and his sadness is so great that even 10 from December to 2011 fifty men and women, thinking that they don't have to give their children, they threw themselves into the ravine ".
Monarch butterflies
In a creek, surrounded by pine forests and milkweed, descending a path of dirt and rock. First are shadows, invisible flaps, motion without sound. Then they appear in a group, some, stirring the air. Finally, Where the heat and food abound they appear by the thousands, by tens of thousands to millions. Monarch butterflies, in Sierra Chincua, Michoacán, Mexico. Nature without fences or borders. From Canada to Mexico, alien to the rules of man.
The battle narco in the Golden Triangle
Do you feel that every day can kill you? "I care for will not happen, but it will always be probable ", Eden responds Leopoldo Molina, mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo, municipality in the Sierra de Chihuahua ....
Jesus Malverde Chapel and the Santa Muerte, Saints narcos
"Jesus Malverde, Cuídame which behaves well, but also take care of me my naughty people .... because just we come and be who we need you and believe in you ", asked one of his followers to this Mexican saint who has own prayer prayers. He and the Santa Muerte are protecting the narco esotericism that is mixed with religion.
The highway of the Mayans
It was just a road. A creased line joining two points. Nothing. A twisting line. she was beautiful, different. A line. Nothing.
Equal to: life wins in the town of slaughter
Death is bastard and hard, but the reality is that life is much more powerful and always wins. Although they are missing 43, even though thousands are missing, always compose and win.
Easter indigenous in Mexico
Of the numerous indigenous celebrations, perhaps that of the Tarahumara Indians, in Chihuahua, be the most unique. Unlike other celebrations around the Mexican Republic, For the Tarahumara people, Holy Week does not represent the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but the eternal struggle between good and evil, They call it "nolirúache" (hanging around) and marks a kind of new year according to its agricultural calendar
Chinese apartheid in Mexico
Especially in the north, in the state of Sonora, the rejection of the Chinese community was increasing. Anti-Chinese League were established in several cities, constantly they ransacked their shops and orchards and, even, in 1923 a law that prevented intermarriage between Mexican and Oriental enacted.
Sex facing death in Mexico
In Mexico, what Olguín said may be true and there is a cruel and sickly coexistence with charred bodies and massacres that are narrated with such precision that the weatherman seems to be going to explain after the newscast if it will be necessary to carry an umbrella, coat or balaclava to upcoming funerals.
Corresponsal en México
Go here for this measure contract, not to jump to conclusions, trying to count the important things first and the least important things too, after. Of not telling me and yes telling others. Go this desire as a whole to hold on to when the egos and doubts come ...
Africa: in the last things
My brother, a great guy who sees life with some clarity by removing decorations, He once told me something that I never forgot the first time I left here: "Africa was your dream, was the legitimate. For all those who do not dare keep your dream ". And I listened to him, although sometimes it cost a little, and i dreamed.
Morelia: tacos, tuna and time…
Arabian princess has name, Mexican flavor and Spanish countenance. Morelia is a friendly city, limbo peaceful contrast to the turbulent reality of the capital, only 300 miles away.
Top 7 / Colonial Cities
For a Spanish, travel to Latin America is a way back home, but with a renewed joy. I like to think beyond the gains of the past, Latin countries today have a heritage in stone and an irresistible personality.
The eyes of the girl in Eyipantla Viridiana
The Eyipantla jump is one of those waterfalls that return the traveler a breath of freedom that has been left as shreds by the way of life. But not water, in, what comes to mind when I think of this cascade, but huge eyes, lively but sad, perhaps resigned. The eyes of the little Viridiana.
La Antigua Veracruz: the Rubicon of Cortez
Antigua is the back of modern Veracruz. It is not touched by the golden wand of tourism, but the mixing of Mexico today began to take shape on its shores, where nearly five centuries ago began the great adventure of Hernán Cortés, who decided to sink their ships there, not burn, to close any possibility of return and thus put towards the great Moctezuma Aztec Court.
