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Sunday, January 17, 2021

Stories by Carlisle Johnson

  • Pancho Villa and friends ride the cowcatcher.

    AMLO’s railway dreams: a shrewd calculation or another train wreck?

    Like millions all over the globe, Mexicans have a love affair with trains and President López Obrador is no exception.

    January 7
  • The North American union will be world's biggest economy.

    The world’s largest economy is not going to be China

    By 2050, and maybe by 2021, it will be Mexico joining Canada and the US as the biggest and more importantly the best by almost any measure.

    December 28
  • dollars and pesos

    Soaring peso inconvenient to some but a quadruple whammy for economy

    A four-peso difference in the exchange rate puts billions of kilos’ worth of fewer tortillas on the tables of Mexico’s hungriest.

    December 7
  • halloween costumes

    Forget Halloween, let’s hear it for the Druids instead

    If “every cloud has a silver lining” that of the Covid-19 cloud is that it has driven a stake into the heart of trick or treating.

    October 28
  • m&ms

    Hey, gordo, watch those M&Ms: law cracks down (again) on unhealthy snacks

    The packaging in which M&Ms and Mamuts are sold will soon be illegal because both feloniously use caricatures and mouth-watering words.

    September 5
  • made in china label

    Made in China is a more common label than Made in Mexico. Why?

    Mexican entrepreneurs should be lining up to replace Chinese exports to the vast US market.

    August 25
  • Mr. Magoo

    The best way to swat a fly: some useful advice for the rainy season

    Flies’ eyes, like yours and mine, are not in the backs of their heads so they have a “six,” a blind spot like a fighter pilot’s.

    July 21
  • Twisted tracks after Guatemala's 1976 earthquake.

    Earthquake survivor lived through two Big Ones

    The only aspect of my life that is likely to garner a mention in Ripley’s Believe it or Not is my relationship with earthquakes.

    June 25
  • Mexico's railroad history goes back nearly two centuries.

    Mexico’s railroads have a colorful history

    It’s too early to buy a ticket or get off the tracks, but that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel may indeed be an oncoming train.

    June 13
  • No public feasting.

    4 centuries after the plague, some remarkable similarities

    In countless countries people are chafing at the misery, inconveniences and prohibitions of coping with a pandemic. But they’re nothing new.

    June 3
  • barrels of oil

    Hacienda Hedge: platinum lining to Mexico’s cloud

    Each year Mexico rolls the dice and makes a huge options bet on the future direction of oil prices. It’s called the “Hacienda Hedge” or the “Pemex Hedge.”

    April 22
  • gauchos

    The Gaucho Effect is about to lasso Mexico—with a double whammy

    The last sovereign debt crisis appeared in 1994, 26 years ago, and the one before that in 1980, 40 years ago. The next one will occur any time now.

    April 17
  • christmas ornaments

    Why are my tweezers Italian? Why not Mexican?

    Perhaps, like Christmas ornaments, they could be made in Michoacán, one of Mexico’s most violence-plagued and dangerous states.

    December 23
  • The piano in the Sierra Madre.

    European-made grand piano a surprise discovery in the Sierra Madre

    The spectacularly beautiful and extraordinarily valuable piano poses regally but totally incognito in a hotel lobby.

    November 19
  • Africa cries on a map in Tapachula.

    Racism probable cause for Africans getting bureaucratic treatment

    A language issue at least muddies the waters, given the apparent lack of English, Portuguese and French-speaking immigration officials.

    September 14
  • hussong's ensenada

    Cannonball runs No. 2: Mother’s Day at Hussong’s, $1 beers, and why Camrys

    More observations on highway travel through Mexico in the second of a series recollecting cannonball runs in Toyotas from the US border to Guatemala.

    August 7
  • The underrated Toyota Camry.

    On the road: lessons learned from cannonball runs through Mexico

    Notes from five runs in five different Toyotas from the Mexico-US border to Guatemala: 6,000 miles, hundreds of speed bumps and plenty of fun.

    August 5
  • Gracias a Dios, Guatemala, across the border from Carmen Xhan, the latest bulge in the border balloon.

    Is it just tomatoes that are fueling a construction boom in Carmen Xhán?

    A visit confirms rumors that the border hamlet is the new bulge in the border balloon, an unguarded gateway between Guatemala and Mexico.

    July 13
  • Nentón, Guatemala, where 1,000 migrants have been reported crossing the Mexican border every day.

    Barking up the wrong tree on illegal immigration: leave Mexico alone

    When Washington scolds or threatens Mexico for its failure to halt illegal migrants, it chooses the wrong target. The target should be Guatemala.

    May 31
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