Old train wagon among Mexico State's top performing classrooms
Twenty-eight students in the community of San Bartolo, Mexico State, go to school in an old train wagon. Four grades are taught together in the Adolfo Lopez Mateos school, where the washrooms are makeshift, and there is not enough running …
Discomfort zone
Last week I was talking to Edith Peredo, a young reporter at radio station Radio Teocelo near the city of Xalapa, Veracruz. Someone had just killed the photojournalist Ruben Espinosa who had worked for many years in Xalapa. …
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A homecoming
Xalapa, the capital of Veracruz, would be gloriously picturesque if it were not a gritty, lived-in town, which is what I like best about it. Hardware and office supply stores fill the colonial-style buildings. Buses growl and spew smoke up and down the jumble …
The accidental fixer
Gaston looks like a rapper gone to seed. He's got the high-riding baseball cap, chunky chain on his neck and saggy jeans. But he also has a pot belly, a scraggly neckbeard and ambles instead of struts through the main …
Gang violence leaves border town without police force, again
An abortive attempt to return law and order to the border town of Guadalupe Distrito Bravos has been brought to an end. Mayor Gabriel Urteaga Nuñez closed up the police department yesterday, after the town's police chief and sole remaining …
Three Honduran journalists killed in space of two weeks
According to Reporters without Borders, three journalists have been killed in Honduras in the space of two weeks. On the third of July, Joel Aquiles Torres, the owner of TV Centro (Canal 67), a TV station in Comayagua, central …