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Stories by Carlisle Johnson

  • A French map from 1783 depicting parts of North America and the Caribbean.

    The massive Spanish ‘reverse remittance’ that never arrived

    A ship loaded with Mexican silver was poised to change the course of Spanish and U.S. history, until it mysteriously vanished at sea.

    May 19
  • Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Dramaretska

    Mexico’s Ukraine inaction consistent with foreign policy but must change

    Non-alignment no longer cuts it. It’s time the world’s largest Spanish-speaking nation assumed a leadership role.

    March 11
  • A migrants camp in Tijuana.

    A solution to the Migrant Issue: offer them a free ride home

    Line up some buses because refugee camps are filled with unhappy campers who would be happy to return home.

    June 10
  • kamala harris

    New efforts to solve Central American refugee problem will not succeed

    Corruption and bilateral disputes will stand in the way of Vice President Kamala Harris when she pays a visit next week.

    May 31
  • Mexico's recent history involves protectionist disputing of foreign contracts in the petroleum industry. How will the government react to the Kansas City Southern merger further consolidating foreign concessions in Mexico's railroad system?

    What will Kansas City Southern’s merger mean for railroads in Mexico?

    AMLO may love trains, but how will his Mexico-first worldview mesh with an even bigger foreign entity running many of the nation’s routes?

    April 29
  • A Mexican pawnshop

    These are good times for Mexico’s venerable pawnbrokers

    The pandemic, a struggling economy and scores of impoverished refugees have added up to ample good cheer for pawn shops.

    April 2
  • migrants in tapachula

    Mexico’s increasingly complicated immigration policy (dilemma)

    The president nimbly dealt with the issue of Mexican workers in the US last week but punted on the thornier issue on its southern border.

    March 5
  • San Caralampio, a third-century saint and martyr, is revered in Comitán for protecting the population from disease. He gets a lively procession each year.

    Daily life in safe, idyllic Comitán is a reminder of the ‘old normal’

    Carlisle Johnson heads for this hidden Chiapas gem when in need of a break somewhere that reminds him of Mexico as it was before Covid-19.

    February 6
  • Jatropha curcas is a source of biodiesel.

    These 3 plants could represent an energy revolution for Mexico

    A common weed, castor beans and sugar could replace imports of diesel, lubricating oil and gasoline.

    January 22
  • 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
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