COVID-19 and AMLO’s presidency will probably stay in the nation’s collective consciousness for decades afterward. What else is on that list?
Opinion
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The biggest threat to Mexico’s monarch butterflies: human indifference
As 2022 begins, Omar Vidal issues a plea to everyone to get to know these pollinators and save them and their migration.
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Growth is Latin America’s big challenge
It may seem hard to believe today but Brazil and Mexico were once the envy of the world. Their economies FULL STORY
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Two years of evading COVID feels like an unending dodgeball game
But in this pandemic scenario, we’re all the reluctant kids at the back of the gym just hoping that the ball doesn’t hit us too hard.
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Navigating the line between speaking up and choosing not to fight
Dealing with Mexico’s hit-and-miss customer service means figuring out when to fight the good fight and when to practice Zen acquiesence.
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Beating the hornets’ nest hasn’t worked, but neither does letting them be
President Calderón’s war against crime failed spectacularly, but AMLO’s opposite strategy — leaving cartels alone — isn’t a solution either.
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The holiday gift we need right now: some optimism about Mexico
It’s easy to focus on the nation’s ills, but a local ice rink reminded the writer that there is professionalism and efficiency here too.
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For transported migrants, INM transfers mean same wait, new location
Trying to relieve overwhelmed staff in Chiapas, the immigration agency is sending migrants to equally understaffed offices all over Mexico.
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Learning a language leads to something greater than the sum of its parts
Gaining a real command of Spanish gave Sarah De Vries’ life a new richness that, at times, makes her world seem to double in size.
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Here’s how I plan to celebrate the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe
The Virgin of Guadalupe is many things: a clever ploy by the church, an unrealistic feminine ideal and the embodiment of a mother’s love.
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Pesos just don’t go as far as they used to
Inflation is pushing prices up. But when will informal and contract workers see corresponding wage increases?
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Cultural ties between Spain and Mexico hold fast in a political storm
The level of interest in Madrid for a display about the Day of the Dead contrasted with a transatlantic slanging match between politicians.
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What about Mexico were you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
In the spirit of the recent holiday, Sarah DeVries compiles a list of all the things she’s grateful for in her adopted country.
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López Obrador has little to show for his fight against corruption
The president claims that corruption has been banished but there has not been a single criminal conviction.
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After another tough pandemic year, hope is on the horizon
The third wave of COVID is subsiding in Mexico, bringing with it a chance to cautiously relax.
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Can AMLO, Biden and Trudeau get back to important trilateral business?
Differing national priorities may make finding common ground difficult at the first North American Leaders’ Summit since 2016.
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This expat sought sun and cheap living but Mexico offered him much more
After spending years studying how to live truly in the moment, it turned out all Bodie Kellogg needed to do was move to Mazatlán.
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Ending corruption and poverty takes more than political theater
AMLO talks a good game about making Mexico more equitable, but he needs to care as much about his actions as he does his optics.
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In Mexico, animal welfare advocates still battle myopia and indifference
Abuse laws with more teeth and government programs to help strays are win-win ideas, but activists mostly find themselves alone in the fight.
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It’s time for Mexico to kick its fossil fuel addiction
Like a sugar junkie returning to bad habits, the government has swept aside the private renewable energy industry in favor of fossil fuels.
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It’s time expats in Mexico had a communal coming of age
A sewage issue in Ajijic got Greg Custer thinking about how gringo communities often don’t react to local problems in useful ways.
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President’s war on ‘neoliberalism’ moves to university campus
The president’s diatribes against the National Autonomous University appear to some to be a sign of a growing squeeze on dissent.
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Can Mexico be a leader at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow?
With its recent hard pivot to fossil fuels, Mexico’s pledges at the COP26 global summit may fall seriously short in fighting global warming.
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Back to school in a pandemic: nerve-wracking but necessary
Denying children their right to an education likely has already done more harm than good. So, finally, it’s back-to-school time.
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Latin America’s environmental villains dodge the COP26 climate summit
The presidents of the region’s two biggest nations—Mexico and Brazil—will be absent when world leaders gather for a crucial summit next week.
