Foreign Native

Leg room on Mexico City’s shuttle buses – the green and white microbuses – is somewhat more limited than on the crummiest of airlines, and aisle seats are at a premium. So much so, that when a passenger in the aisle seat gets off, the person sitting at the window will shuffle across in less [...]

Mexico has a wide variety of dichos or refranes – sayings, maxims, or phrases – some of Mexican origin and others evidently not. By analogy or through rhyme, the dichos are supposed to convey time-honored truths that admit no argument. But they can be, and often are, pronouced in such a smug manner as to [...]

The Miami Herald’s Mexico edition, which included an eight-page pull-out local news section, stopped publishing at the end of May, leaving Mexico for the time being without an English language daily. The Herald started publishing the local paper, in partnership with Mexico’s El Universal, just over four years ago. A visit to the online address [...]