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This past week, Mexico’s most famous drunk of the Internet era died – ironically run over by a woman driving under the influence of alcohol. Guillermo López Langarica, popularly known as La Canaca, became famous when, after being arrested for drunk driving, argued: “so what? I haven’t crashed!” The colorful Guadalajara character, known locally for [...]

Arráncame La Vida, a film about the life of a politician’s wife in post-revolution Mexico, is the latest home-made Mexican film to challenge the host of Hollywood productions for the moviegoer’s money. The film’s debut was an auspicious one, according to local press reports on the amount of people who saw it in its first [...]

Someone once wrote of John Steinbeck that he was the sort of man who would rather be duped out of a dollar by someone with a sob story than risk refusing the money to someone with a genuine need. In Mexico, there are plenty of opportunities to test the dilemma of the author of  Tortilla [...]