Foreign Native

People who visit Mexico on business trips, and attend conferences, will have discovered that they aren’t much different here than anywhere else – the long introductions, the bad jokes, the charts, the strategic coffee breaks, the conference jargon. One word that is extremely popular among speakers at these events is “fundamental,” which for convenience’s sake [...]

Mexico City’s urban expansion, and corresponding increase in traffic, has meant that capital dwellers have over the years been putting forward their starting times in an attempt to steal a march on their fellow rush-hour sufferers. People who used to leave at 7:30 am are out by 6:30, and are wont to make that 6:20 [...]