An ingenious rainwater harvesting system developed by a Mexico City organization is helping the most marginalized communities have access to clean water.
Mexico Life
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La Perla Records & Books in Guadalajara: a passion for great literature and music
Gerry Smith knows books and ‘Bola’ Domene knows music. Together they offer what might be the biggest and best used book and record shop in Latin America.
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Oaxacan elders are dancing their way out of isolation thanks to non-profit group
Seniors in Santo Domingo Tonalá have found community within a zumba beat through the efforts of a non-profit support group.
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A visit to Guadalajara’s Bosque Urbano, Latin America’s largest tree farm
Bosque Urbano is the name of a huge nursery in the northwest of the city and responsible for the planting of thousands of trees per week.
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A line chef in Mexico’s top restaurants found his passion was gelato
Does blue corn flavor gelato sound appealing? Avocado? Those are just two of the many flavors being dreamed up by “gelatician” José Luis Cervantes.
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The fish with the Mona Lisa smile faces extinction due to loss of habitat
The axolotl lpopulation in Lake Xochimilco — where they had thrived in pre-Hispanic times — dropped from 6,000 per square kilometer in 1998 to only 35 in 2014.
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Leonora Carrington Museum is a surreal location for surrealist art
The prisons cells of an old penitentiary seem an unlikely place for exhibition rooms but that is where you will find the new museum in the city of San Luis Potosí.
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The Mexican maple forest that time forgot — and amazed botanists
In a hidden-away arroyo in Jalisco, botanists were amazed to see not just one maple tree but a whole woods full of them, an ancient fir-maple-conifer cloud forest.
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Maru Toledo’s cooking school is rescuing colonial and pre-Hispanic cuisine
Maru Toledo, an award-winning cook, culinary researcher, radio personality and author of at least 20 cookbooks, keeps old techniques alive.
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In downtown Guadalajara, a revival of the art of handmade books
José Clemente Orozco is doing marvelous things with books in the Jalisco capital.
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Journal tells tale of 1849 trek across Mexico, from Tampico to Mazatlán
The complete journal of B. Jay Antrim allows the reader to fully appreciate what Mexico, Mexicans and travel were like in 1849.
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What is a Persian qanat doing in Guadalajara?
Qanats were probably invented in Persia at least 5,000 years ago, and were used to move underground water from a well located at one point to some spot far away.
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Fishermen give up their nets to harvest ‘pink gold’ of Yucatán lagoons
In Xtampú they extract and sell the pink salt and at the same time recover an ancestral tradition.
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Tortillas & Peanut Butter: an American mom becomes a Mexican smuggler
“To know Mexico, you must smell it for yourself,” my grandmother said on returning from her tour south of the FULL STORY
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Amid violence and poverty, there’s music in the air
A priest, a musician and a French pilot have helped children from an impoverished town realize the dream of opening a music school.
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San Miguel group crosses cultural lines
To be a woman. In Spanish, it translates to ser mujer. In San Miguel de Allende, Ser Mujer speaks of FULL STORY
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Seniors homes poles apart in Zihuatanejo
Without any doubt, seniors are among the most vulnerable of Mexico’s citizens. In keeping with the times, more and more FULL STORY
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The magic circle of western Mexico
Thirty-three years ago I took up residence in a pine and oak forest on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest FULL STORY
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Newborn, energized after temazcal session
For many of my 20 years living part of the year in Mexico, I had heard of the healing powers FULL STORY
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New realities for kids with Puebla school
A music school in the city of Puebla is the breeding ground for successful career professionals, bringing a new reality FULL STORY
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The most important mammal in the world
“If I were to make an organization chart of the most important mammals in the world,” naturalist Rodrigo Orozco once FULL STORY
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Day of the Dead: time for some Nohoch Pib
If you fancy eating some pib during Day of the Dead celebrations, Kanasín, Yucatán, might be the place to go. FULL STORY
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A journey to Jalisco’s Selva Negra Forest
Archaeologist Rodrigo Esparza had a problem. He had been asked to take a group of VIPs on a visit to FULL STORY
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Fewer people are whistling in Cuicatlán
The whistled variation of an indigenous language spoken in mountain villages in the north of Oaxaca is in danger of FULL STORY
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Some Chapala spots well worth a visit
Mexico’s largest lake is a magnet for foreigners and nationals alike who can’t help but be charmed by its stunning FULL STORY