- journalism
- Mexico
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 …
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 …
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 …
- Soccer
A child's logic of soccer tactics
Everyone who has watched Under 8 soccer is familiar with "swarm ball": a mass of children chasing single-mindedly after a ball, tumbling over each other, getting in each others way, stealing the ball from teammates, kicking the ball into opposing players shins, and kicking …
The cartoon baggies of Mexico's bloodiest drug gang
Vanguardia has a chilling look at a little known side of Mexico's deadly drug war: the little cartoon-imprinted baggies drugs are sold in. Writer Ana Cavolo recalls her town of Torreon, Coahuila in the early 2000s as the …