The skyline of Mexico City from our apartment: Many imagine Mexico City as simply another overcrowded, chaotic and polluted megacity of the sort unique to the developing world. And sure, part of the city does look like those typical scenes of a developing country: But there is more to Mexico City than that. And there … Continue reading
Right at the heart of things, El Centro has always been the city’s core – even from the very beginning… El Centro was formerly the site of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, it was subsequently the colonial capital of New Spain and it remains the center of Mexico’s government today. El Centro is a concentrated cornucopia … Continue reading
Written: October 2010 in London, U.K. Occurred: June 1996 on the Pacific coast of Mexico Last time I was back in California, I stumbled across some prints (remember those?) from a trip I took to Mexico in 1996. I was initially going to place this post in the Travel To “Normal” Places category, but then … Continue reading
Over the past several months, I have heard the question as to whether or not Mexico is a failed state raised a number of times. As part of the “Mexico Series” I have been posting over the last year or so, it is time for me as an International Relations academic to address that question… … Continue reading
Click on the graphic below to view it in a larger size: The Mexico Series: Weapons Of The Mexican Drug Cartels & The Mexican Police The Mexico Series… Savvy Young Heirs Give Mexico Drug Cartels New Face The Mexico Series… Latest Member of Forbes Magazine’s Exclusive List Of Billionaires The Mexico Series… Is Mexico A … Continue reading
As I always say, it’s good to know people… Tonight proved no exception as we scored an invite to dinner with the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, at the Fairmont. Tables were $3000 each and we got in for free – not bad… Here we are mingling before the big doings: El Presidente gave … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 