Foreign Native

When Mexicans make fun of Anglo-Saxon efforts at speaking Spanish, they usually focus on the flat r’s and incorrect verb conjugations. Although foreigners from different parts of the world make different kinds of errors in pronunciation, it is almost invariably those made by English speakers that are the object of fun, most likely because Americans [...]

The Mexico City Metro system recently introduced rechargeable electronic cards, plunging its users into modernity. The yellow and white cards can be bought at the ticket counter for 10 pesos, and charged and recharged with as much or as little credit as you like. The cards have several advantages over the 40-year-old system of paper [...]

To nary a whimper from once vocal opponents, the Mexican Congress, in one of its last acts of the spring sessions passed the bill setting a single price for new books all over the country, doing away with the discounts much appreciated in these pages. The votes in the senate and the lower house in [...]

It had been mentioned that Mexico’s May 5 holiday – Cinco de Mayo – is more celebrated among Mexicans in the U.S. than it is in Mexico, and that nobody really seems to know why. It appears that many people in the U.S. think Cinco de Mayo is Mexico’s Independence Day, the equivalent of the [...]