Topic - Current Affairs

An exercise by BBC Mundo showed the most annoying expression across the Spanish speaking world is “me entiendes?” - do you understand me? - which certain speakers will inject into their conversation when trying to make a point.
The article, reported on by a local newspaper, drew a rush of web postings sympathetic to the findings of the survey, and […]

The Mexican government has been getting a head start on celebrations of the bicentennial anniversary of the Independence from Spain, and the centennial anniversary of the 1910-1917 Revolution. Preparations are already under way for major events next year.
Among them is the construction of the Bicentennial Monument which began this week with the ceremonial laying of […]

A weekend walk from the Palacio de Bellas Artes to the Zócalo in Mexico City has become easier as Av. Madero is has been closed to vehicles. The decision came somewhat out of the blue, although with the levels of traffic downtown it’s improbable that advance warning would have led  motorists to queue up for “one […]

The Mexico City government got a head start celebrating the bicentennial anniversary (2010) of Mexico’s Independence with the launch of a new fleet of buses serving Paseo de la Reforma, the thoroughfare that runs right through the capital’s main tourist areas.  The 173 new buses replace more than 300 old buses, most of them the green and white […]

In winning the 2009 Gold Cup,  Mexico’s national football team did more than lift an official FIFA trophy for the first time in years. “El Tri” as the team of the green, white and red strip is known, ended a decade-long drought in which it was unable to beat the U.S. away from home , with […]

Downtown Mexico City is humming again - the museums and shops are all open, the restaurants are back in full swing, and the streets running off the Zocalo are teeming with the usual weekend crowds.
Some people are still taking the precaution of wearing face masks, but the city center now appears much as it did […]

The Sven-Goran Eriksson “era” in charge of Mexico’s national football team came to an end when, for the second time under the Swedish boss, the team went down to Honduras in San Pedro Sula. Last time could be considered bad luck, a single own-goal decided the match. On Wednesday night, despite having most of the […]

A study from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Mexicans make up by far the largest foreign-born population group  in the country, with 11.7 million Mexican-born people living in the U.S. in 2007.
Mexicans have long been migrating to the U.S. in search of work, and the money they send home each year - $25 billion […]

After a month-long drought, around mid-January the Mexican football (soccer) season got back underway, providing millions of fans with their weekly entertainment and a ready topic of small talk which, for the holiday season, had to be replaced with the weather.
The break in the annual football schedule - some years ago Mexico switched to the […]

With the change in the weather come the coughs, colds and sneezes which are impossible to dodge when you live in a city of 20 million.
The capital’s army of independent  vendors are quick to catch on to the pecuniary opportunity afforded by the suffering, adding individual packets of Kleenex - two for the price of […]