A photo by Yael Martínez whose work focuses on fractured communities and the impact of organized crime.
Three Mexicans are among 15 recipients of National Geographic‘s 2022 Wayfinder Award, which recognizes innovative individuals engaged in groundbreaking work in a variety of mediums.
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, a photographer and visual artist, Yael Martínez, a photographer, and Carlos Velazco, a biodiversity consultant, are the three Mexican winners. They will join the National Geographic Society’s global community of explorers and receive a monetary prize to support their work.
Alcázar-Duarte, a Mexico City native, is a Mexican-British multidisciplinary artist and photographer whose work acknowledges her indigenous heritage while exploring current ideals of progress, National Geographic said. “In her projects, Alcázar-Duarte mixes images and new technologies, such as augmented reality, to create multilayered work, producing meaning through seemingly disconnected narratives,” the magazine said.
Her personal website features projects with intriguing titles such as Red Mist, Possible Landscapes and Mexico: An Inside Outsider.
Wayfinder award winners Alcázar-Duarte, Martínez and Velazco.
Martínez’s work focuses on “fractured communities” in Mexico, National Geographic said, adding that his images “often reflect the sense of emptiness, absence, pain, and suffering of those affected by organized crime.”
The Guerrero native, a nominee member of the acclaimed photographic cooperative Magnum Photos, showcases projects on his personal website with titles such as La casa que sangra (The House that Bleeds) and La raíz oscura (The Dark Root).
Meanwhile, Monterrey-based Velazco has documented more than 5,600 species (including undescribed species) and logged more than 24,300 observations on nature site iNaturalist while helping other users make more than 131,000 identifications, National Geographic said.
The magazine also said that Velazco’s life goal is to continue to promote biodiversity protection and documentation while empowering local communities and individuals to protect nature through knowledge and respect.
According to National Geographic, the Wayfinder Award “recognizes and elevates a group of individuals who are leading a new age of exploration through science, education, conservation, technology and storytelling.”
“These individuals have proven themselves as the next generation of influential leaders, communicators, and innovators whose critical work demonstrates the power of science, and inspires us to learn about, care for, and protect our world,” it said.
Recipients of the award – previously called the Emerging Explorer Award – are “engaged in groundbreaking work that challenges the most entrenched stereotypes in the animal kingdom, focuses on inclusive and community-based conservation, blends social justice with ecological scientific research, and promotes racial literacy in education.”
Information about all 15 of the Wayfinder Award recipients is available here.
Chicken vendors in Chilpancingo have closed after eight people with connections to the local industry were killed.
A string of murders is making it hard to buy fresh chicken at markets in Chilpancingo, Guerrero.
Eight people – seven men who worked in the poultry industry and the 12-year-old daughter of one of them – were killed last week, leading virtually all chicken stalls in the state capital’s main markets to close.
Fresh chicken distributor Tomás Ramírez was the first victim, shot dead Monday, June 6, in the Baltazar R. Leyva Mancilla central market. Chicken stall owners told the newspaper Reforma that Ramírez had only returned to Chilpancingo three days before he was murdered, after leaving the city due to threats. Armed men torched six public transit vehicles in Chilpancingo on the night of the homicide, the newspaper El Universal reported.
Another poultry industry worker was murdered at the same market last Thursday. Two gunmen killed an employee of a chicken distribution company as he was leaving the market in a delivery truck. Another man in the same truck was wounded.
Armed men killed farm owner/chicken distributor Víctor Vega at a poultry farm on Saturday.
A massacre occurred two days later at a poultry farm in Petaquillas, a community in the municipality of Chilpancingo. Armed men killed farm owner/chicken distributor Víctor Vega, his 12-year-old daughter and four farm employees in a brazen attack on Saturday morning. Two other employees were wounded. Reforma reported that one of the murder victims was Víctor Vázquez, half-brother of slain chicken distributor Tomás Ramírez.
Chicken stalls in Chilpancingo’s six biggest markets closed in response to the three attacks, whose motives have not been clearly established. El Universal reported that a section of the central market where more than 30 chicken stalls are located remained empty on Monday afternoon. “There are no vendors nor buyers. Hardly anyone walks through there,” it said.
Reforma reported that state police, soldiers and members of the National Guard visited the market on Saturday afternoon and took photographs of vacant chicken stalls. One vendor told the newspaper Sunday that sales have declined at all stalls since Ramírez’s murder.
One of the other Chilpancingo markets where chicken vendor stalls have been closed in recent days is the San Francisco market. An employee of a butcher shop located just outside the market said Sunday that she was selling pork and beef but not chicken because none had arrived. “We don’t know when there will be [more],” she said.
A police officer stands watch at the Baltazar R. Leyva Mancilla market in Chilpancingo.
In the central market, where the only chicken available on Monday was leftover frozen stock, a vendor told El Universal that no one knows when the distribution of fresh chicken will recommence and when the stalls that sell the product will reopen. She also said that stall owners had no guarantee that they wouldn’t be targeted by criminals.
In light of the recent violence, the Guerrero government announced it would increase security in the capital, but the police presence in the central market on Monday was minimal. According to the state Attorney General’s Office, two criminal organizations – Los Ardillos and Los Tlacos – operate in Chilpancingo.
The newspaper El Sur cited an anonymous source that told them that the attacks are the result of a truce between the two criminal groups being broken by the killing of Guerrero transportation leader Francisco García Marroquín on May 31 in Chilpancingo. The source told El Sur that García was close to Los Tlacos.
However, former Chilapa-Chilpancingo diocese bishop Salvador Rangel claimed that the recent attacks against poultry industry workers were committed by a third group that is seeking to displace the other two. Rangel, who has an intimate knowledge of organized crime in Guerrero, didn’t name the organization, but asserted that authorities are aware of it.
“This will affect all of us,” one central market vendor said, referring to the recent shootings in the state capital. “People aren’t coming [to shop], they’re afraid.”
A court decision may have contributed to the government's decision to vaccinate children. deposit photos
After long maintaining that vaccinating young children against COVID-19 wasn’t necessary, the federal government on Tuesday announced that it will offer shots to minors aged five to 11.
Deputy Health Minister Hugo López-Gatell said that children in that age bracket (or their parents) will be eligible to register their interest in getting vaccinated on the government’s vaccination website starting this Thursday. They will be vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, he said.
“There is a new change in the national policy against COVID-19,” López-Gatell told reporters at President López Obrador’s regular news conference. “… A contract has already been signed with the company Pfizer for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, of which we’re going to purchase about 8 million doses that will allow us to begin this vaccination process.”
López-Gatell, who has led the government’s pandemic response since the first coronavirus cases were detected here in early 2020, said the dates on which young children will be able to get a shot will differ depending on the municipality in which they live. “You have to be attentive to the official announcement in each municipality, it won’t be simultaneous in the whole country,” he said.
The announcement comes after the government extended its national COVID-19 vaccination campaign to children aged 12 to 15 in late April. Health officials had previously asserted that inoculating younger adolescents and kids – with the exception of those aged 12 to 14 with underlying health problems – was not necessary.
A court ruling in February may have contributed to the government’s decision to offer vaccines to primary school-aged children. A federal court ruled that children aged 5 to 11 have the right to be vaccinated against COVID-19. However, the ruling obliged parents to go to court and obtain an injunction to access vaccines for their young sons and daughters.
Mexico is well behind many other countries in offering COVID-19 vaccines to young children. The United States and Canada, for example, began offering Pfizer shots to children aged five to 11 last November. Doses administered to kids in that age cohort are one-third the size of those given to adolescents and adults.
While young children haven’t yet had the opportunity to get vaccinated, the uptake among the eligible population has been high. The federal Health Ministry reported Monday that 91% of adults – over 81 million people – have been vaccinated with at least one shot. It said in a statement that 7.2 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 have also been vaccinated, and that 66% of adults have had at least one booster shot.
The Health Ministry also reported that an average of 3,109 new infections was reported per day in the seven-day period from June 5 to 11. New case numbers have increased recently as a fifth wave of infections spreads across the country, but COVID-19 fatalities remain relatively low and occupancy levels in hospital COVID wards are extremely low. Over 6,000 new cases and 42 COVID-19 deaths were registered Saturday before reported numbers dipped on Sunday and Monday, as has occurred throughout the pandemic due to a drop-off in testing and/or the recording and reporting of test results on weekends.
There are currently 37,690 estimated active cases across Mexico, a 58% increase compared to a week ago, official data shows. Mexico City has the highest number of active cases with over 11,500 followed by Sinaloa with more than 3,600 and México state with just under 2,750.
On a per capita basis, Baja California Sur is currently dealing with the largest outbreak with over 180 active cases per 100,000 people. Mexico City ranks second with about 130 active cases per 100,000 residents followed by Sinaloa with almost 120, Quintana Roo with just under 80 and Yucatán with almost 70.
Mexico’s accumulated tally of confirmed cases is 5.82 million – a figure that is widely accepted as a vast undercount – while the official COVID-19 death toll is 325,205, a number that is also considered a significant underestimate. Based on official data, Mexico has the 32nd highest COVID mortality rate in the world with 254 deaths per 100,000 people. Peru ranks first followed by Bulgaria and Hungary.
A taco made with cochinita pibil, a Yucatán specialty.
A dish at a market in Yucatán left some customers hospitalized with food poisoning on Sunday after more than 30 people became ill.
The cochinita pibil — a regional shredded-pork specialty — at the municipal market in Seyé, 35 kilometers east of Mérida, has been blamed.
People who suffered stomach pains, diarrhea, vomiting, shivers, a racing heart rate or headaches agreed that they had bought the same dish from the same vendor.
Some people who were severely poisoned were taken to Acanceh hospital, while a large number of people required medical attention in Seyé and police officers were required to maintain order outside a clinic.
The market was closed by local authorities and the case is being investigated by the state health ministry.
TasteAtlas said the dish’s name is a clue to how it was traditionally prepared. “Since cochinita means ‘baby pig,’ and pibil means ‘buried’ or ‘underground,’ it acts as a proof that the original recipe used a whole suckling pig that was buried in a pit for roasting,” it said on its website.
The pork specialty is made by marinating meat in a combination of annatto paste, bitter orange juice and garlic. It is shredded and served on tortillas, tacos, or on its own with shallots, pickled onions, salsa and various roasted vegetables.
Participants at the World Nude Bike Ride in Mexico City. Twitter / LGarvas
The focus of drivers was put to the test on Saturday when hundreds of cyclists joined the World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) in Mexico City and Guadalajara, Jalisco.
A swarm of nude riders assembled in the two cities to demand better safety for cyclists and to protest against the use of environmentally damaging fossil fuels. The route in Mexico City was 16.5 kilometers, mainly along Reforma Avenue, according to the national organization WNBR México.
Skateboarders, roller skaters and other manually wheeled riders also joined the event, promoted under the slogan “Now you see me,” a call for greater awareness of non-motorists and the dangers they face.
People who attended the event were urged to follow COVID-19 guidelines and instructed to avoid any forms of harassment.
The 2022 WNBR in Guadalajara. Twitter / @cruising_bueno
The international protest movement sees independently organized events take place in cities across the world including London, Vancouver and Zaragoza, usually in June.
Cycling is a dangerous way to get around Mexico’s urban centers. In Mexico City, eight cyclists died on the road in the first three months of the year, two more than over the same period in 2021, according to the city’s transport ministry. The civil organization Ni una muerte vial (Not one road death) puts the January-April count at nine deaths.
Most of the deaths recorded in Mexico City occurred in boroughs that have poor cycling infrastructure, such as cycling paths, the news site Infobae reported. Better infrastructure is found in wealthy boroughs such as Cuauhtémoc and Benito Juárez, Infobae said.
In May, 2021, the Mexico City government implemented an initiative called Protege al Ciclista (protect the cyclist), in an effort to improve road safety for bike riders.
High global prices for raw materials have pushed up construction materials costs in Mexico.
Prices of construction materials increased 18.5% on average in the 12 months to the end of May, while the cost of one product surged by over 10% between April and May.
The national statistics agency INEGI calculated the annual inflation rate by analyzing the prices of 49 building materials. The figure is more than double the general inflation rate, which was 7.65% in the second half of May.
Luis Vallarino, a director with advisory firm R² Responsible Research, said that higher international prices for raw materials were responsible for the increases. Raw materials became even more expensive after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, he said.
Roberto Macías of the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry said that increases in the cost of materials was concerning and will affect both public and private projects.
Twelve of the 49 construction materials analyzed increased by more than the 18.5% annual average. Asphalt recorded the steepest hike, with its price rising 68.2% over the past 12 months. Asphalt also recorded the largest price increase between the end of April and the end of May with a 10.4% spike.
In annual terms, timber recorded the second highest price increase – a 33.1% jump – followed by steel derivatives, which registered a 32.9% hike. The cost of cement increased 17.8%, just below its highest ever annual price hike of 18.1%, recorded in 2005.
Between April and May, paint recorded the second highest increase after asphalt, with its price going up by 6.8%. Rebar rose 3.4% while wire and wire rod increased 2.5%. INEGI reported that the prices of 44 of the 49 construction materials included in its analysis increased between the end of April and the end of May. The price of 33 of the products has increased every month since the start of the year.
A provisional suspension of bullfights at Mexico City’s Plaza México became a definitive ban on Friday, but the bullring intends to fight the latest federal court decision.
Administrative court Judge Jonathan Bass Herrera issued a definitive suspension order against bullfights at the cavernous 42,000-seat stadium two weeks after he imposed a provisional suspension. His rulings came in response to a lawsuit filed by Justicia Justa (Fair Justice), a civil society organization.
Justicia Justa argued that the staging of bullfights violates a law designed to ensure that women can live their lives free of violence. It also also contended that two laws that allow bullfighting in the capital are unconstitutional because they allow bulls to be treated in a degrading and stigmatizing way.
It is the first time in its 76-year history that Plaza México – the worlds’s largest bullring – has been legally prevented from staging bullfights, although it didn’t host any for a year and nine months between early 2020 and late 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The suspension doesn’t apply to other venues where bullfights could take place, but Plaza México is the only one in the capital that has hosted such events in recent years.
The stadium said in a statement that it would postpone upcoming bullfights but “continue its legal defense of Mexican customs and traditions, exhausting all legal avenues within its reach [to fight] in favor of bullfighting.”
There were five events at Plaza México in April and May before Bass issued the provisional suspension order. No bullfights were scheduled for June, meaning that the first to be canceled due to the ban is that which was scheduled for July 2.
Plaza México said it was confident that bullfighting will be able to resume at the arena and it will be able to continue providing employment to people who work at such events. It said it hoped to continue operating as a bullfighting venue while “respecting the rights and preferences of each person … [but being] removed from individualistic views that affect our traditions and cultural values.”
Plaza México also said it would host non-bullfighting events that have already been announced as they are not subject to the judge’s ruling.
A lawyer who spoke with the newspaper Reforma said it was possible the definitive suspension order will be overturned, although a revocation would likely take months. Bullfighting at Plaza México is “salvageable,” said Eduardo Heftye, who is also the president of Bibliófilos Taurinos de México (Bullfighting Bibliophiles of Mexico), an association that promotes the bloodsport via the publication of books and hosting of conferences.
He said the stadium should occupy itself with fighting the court order rather than spend its time worrying about it.
“Bullfighting has always been attacked, whether for religious, economic or political reasons … but it always bounces back with … unusual strength,” Heftye added.
No one was trapped underneath the debris after the Soriana supermarket's roof collapsed in Mixcoac, Benito Juárez. Santiago Taboada/Twitter
A supermarket roof collapsed in Mexico City on Sunday when it gave way under a hailstorm and heavy rainfall.
Two hundred people were evacuated from the Soriana supermarket located in the Mixcoac neighborhoo in the Benito Juárez borough, south of the historic center. At least one person was injured when a quarter of the roof collapsed, local officials said.
Mexico City’s Civil Protection agency confirmed on Twitter that a large quantity of hail was to blame for the collapse of the 35-meter by 20-meter section.
One shopper filmed the moment that the roof’s beams started to crack and give way.
Así captaron usuarios el momento del colapso del techo de la @TiendaSoriana ubicada en avenida revolución en Mixcoac, fue por el peso del granizo continúan laborando Unidades de Emergencia de emergencia pic.twitter.com/GxbLkMENEV
Video of the roof collapsing that circulated on social media.
In the video published by the news network ForoTV, water is seen leaking through the roof moments before its collapse. The person filming can be heard saying “that part is next,” pointing to a section of the roof. Seconds later the roof collapses, provoking screams of panic.
In another video, large amounts of debris can be seen afterward, alongside televisions for sale that continue broadcasting programming, apparently unaffected.
Benito Juárez Mayor Santiago Taboada said there were no reports of people trapped under the roof.
In the nearby boroughs of Álvaro Obregón, Coyoacán and Iztapalapa, roads were covered with ice after the storm, causing traffic problems.
Elsewhere, a 20-meter tree fell in the Tlalpan borough in the south of Mexico City, damaging electricity cables, traffic lights and a vehicle, city authorities said.
The president said his proposed changes would eliminate fraud and save more than US $1.2 billion. Presidencia de la República
Mexico’s populist president has turned his guns on foreign investors, the media and the business elite to rally his base and drive an anti-establishment message. But his latest target seems an unlikely one: the body that certified his landslide election victories.
President López Obrador has proposed to slash the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) budget and replace its 11-member council chosen by political consensus with seven directly elected delegates. He also wants to save money by cutting the size of Mexico’s Senate by a quarter, its lower house by over a third and ending public financing of election campaigns.
The opposition and independent observers have cried foul, saying the changes would destroy the INE’s independence and undermine confidence in Mexico’s young democracy, which emerged from 70 years of one-party rule only in 2000.
“It’s a reform which is not necessary because what we have today works well,” INE president Lorenzo Córdova told the Financial Times in an interview. “As the English-speaking world says: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’”
INE President Lorenzo Córdova has pushed back against President López Obrador’s plans for the election institute’s future. INE
Mexico will hold the biggest elections in its history in 2024, choosing a new president and Congress, eight state governors, the mayor of Mexico City and 31 state legislatures. López Obrador wants to push the constitutional changes needed to reconfigure the INE through Congress this year, though he faces stiff opposition.
“If the INE really is damaged, it would be a disaster,” said Enrique Krauze, a Mexican historian and commentator. “The future of the INE is the biggest worry in Mexico right now.”
López Obrador lacks the necessary two-thirds majority in Congress but opponents worry that even if he does not succeed in tailoring the INE to his liking, he will have tarnished the institute’s reputation enough with his attacks to mount a credible challenge to the 2024 election result if his candidates lose.
Córdova, an earnest academic who has run the electoral body since 2014, is keen to avoid stoking conflict. But he points out that during his tenure at the INE, López Obrador won the presidency by a landslide while his Morena political movement won half of Mexico’s state governorships, with more victories predicted in state elections this month.
“How is it possible that in this period of eight years, in two of every three elections held, there has been a change of power . . . the party which has benefited most has been Morena,” he said. “In truth . . . the main problem the president sees is that this is an autonomous institution which doesn’t bend to political power.”
López Obrador has been gunning for the INE since narrowly losing the 2006 presidential election. He claims that his proposed changes would eliminate fraud, “stop dead people from voting” and save over US $1.2 billion. The move, announced in April, has not yet been voted on in Congress.
The left wing veteran’s assault on the electoral body comes after a string of attacks from the president on Mexico’s fragile independent media, the Supreme Court, the central bank, foreign investors in the energy sector and others he sees as opponents of his so-called “transformation” of Mexico.
“This proposal comes at a time when López Obrador has been actively undermining democratic guarantees, such as judicial independence and the essential role of independent journalism and civil society,” said Tamara Taraciuk Broner, acting director of Human Rights Watch Americas. “It is critical that any electoral reform is the result of an open public discussion and that it does not limit fundamental democratic guarantees that Mexicans fought for decades to win.”
López Obrador at April’s presidential recall referendum. The president purposely invalidated his vote by writing “Long live Zapata!” across the ballot. Twitter / @lopezobrador_
Córdova faces pressure on other fronts. The government slashed 26% from his budget request for this year, leaving the INE short of the funds needed to run a presidential recall referendum designed by López Obrador (the president won the contest in April easily on a low turnout).
A ruling party candidate for governor of Guerrero state, Félix Salgado Macedonio, threatened Córdova publicly at a demonstration held outside the INE in April while it was deciding whether to bar him for failing to report campaign spending. “Wouldn’t the people of Mexico like to know where Lorenzo Córdova lives?” Salgado asked the crowd, speaking on a makeshift platform which included a coffin with the name “Lorenzo” on it.
The Morena-appointed president of Congress, Sergio Gutiérrez, last year filed a criminal complaint against him and five other INE directors over the conduct of the recall referendum, breaking what Córdova says is an unwritten rule dating back decades that INE officials should answer only to an electoral tribunal, not the courts.
But despite the attacks, the INE continues to win the trust of nearly 70% of citizens, according to polls. Córdova has won popular recognition for his stout defense of the institution and is greeted in the street or in restaurants by well-wishers.
Conscious of his brief to uphold impartiality, the INE chief is reluctant to attack the government directly or to play up the problems his institute faces. But when pressed on whether Mexico’s young democracy is in danger, he answers:
“There is an institutional strength which allows us to say that democracy in Mexico has the force needed to face challenges — but evidently we are facing unprecedented challenges.”
Artist and instructor Alma Silva, left, observes student Laura Corral's work in a recent class at Mezgaleria in Zihuatanejo.
Ask any restaurateur and they will tell you that pairing wine with food is imperative to enjoying a fine dining experience. But artist Alma Silva of Zihuatanejo has taken this concept one step further and decided to pair wine with her art classes and workshops.
While many cities north of the border offer wine and art nights, Silva’s classes for all levels are different and, in my opinion, a cut above the norm. Rather than the typical strategy of having participants all paint the same thing, Silva has taken her classes in an entirely new direction.
“I want to make [classes] more about the experience and a way to make the people connect with their creativity,” says Silva, “to bring out the inner artist in you and work with your emotions to create a connection with the art you want to create … I want to change how you perceive things and reach beyond.”
They’re classes for people who want to “reconnect and reignite their practice,” is how she puts it.
“I want to change how you perceive things and reach beyond,” says artist Alma Silva of the roving class she offers in different locations in Zihuatanejo. Courtesy
Born in Mexico City, Silva’s art beginnings were in the 1980s, when she took beginners’ classes at a community cultural center in Morelia, but her artistic journey has taken her in many different directions. During the mid-ʼ90s, she studied architecture, and in 1995 presented her first solo exhibition, Architecture in Screen Printing at the Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo; she eventually obtained her specialty in landscape architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. She’s also taken many classes and workshops in the plastic arts and watercolor techniques.
I decided to take a class myself and see if Silva would successfully bring out the latent artist in me.
Upon arrival at the beautiful, impressive Mezgaleria in Zihuatanejo’s Playa Madera area, I found out that the class was entirely in Spanish and that I was the only foreigner there. Thankfully, a friend of mine had also signed up, and Silva’s assistant Carla Lopez translated as required.
Once our hosts poured the wine, we began.
Students hard at work in Silva’s class at Mezgaleria.
We first explored our own faces by drawing our eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Silva provided mirrors, which we had to share, and so some of this was done by memory as we passed them around the room. We then drew our self-portraits by tracing each of our facial features with our fingers before putting them on paper.
It was amazing how much the self-portraits resembled each of the eight participants who’d made them, especially since part of the exercise required them to close their eyes.
Silva then deliberately cracked the mirrors and passed them back to us. The result was a comical Picasso-type reflection, with more than one eye, nose or a crooked mouth. We then drew what we saw, and, once again, I was amazed by the accuracy of the finished work.
Unfortunately, not completely understanding the instructions, I also drew the shards of glass across the page to resemble the work of Jack the Ripper. Still, the very gracious (and generous) Silva complimented my work.
By the time the class was over, I had found myself beaming from my accomplishment (or maybe it was the wine).
Silva has more workshops coming up in Zihuatanejo, including one at Casa Tucanes Villas and Bungalows rentals on La Ropa beach and one at the Quatro Cafe in Zihuatanejo center. She said she’s also eyeing locations like ecological parks in Ixtapa, Playa Blanca and Barra de Potosí.
You can sign up for a package of two classes a week for four weeks, which costs 2,000 pesos; each class is different. Or, if you prefer to sign up for an individual workshop, those cost 600 pesos each. Both options include all materials and, of course, the wine.
To find out more, you can find Alma Silva on Facebook and Instagram, as well as on Airbnb, or call her at 755-108-6810 (WhatsApp).
The writer divides her time between Canada and Zihuatanejo.
