Foreign Native

Argentine cartoonist Quino (Joaquín Lavado), creator of the Mafalda comic strip, is in Mexico this week. Mafalda, which Quino began drawing in 1964 and continued until 1973, was always popular in Mexico, itself home to some of the world’s finest political cartoonists. Mafalda, a child of the 60s, combines the innocence of the Peanuts strip with the [...]

One of the problems with predicting the outcome of football matches is that the prediction is as likely as not to be wrong. The prediction  that Mexico would defeat Honduras away in the 2010 World Cup qualifying turned out to be one of those, as the local side won 1-0 and secured first place in the group [...]

Rush hour traffic in Mexico City has reached the point of saturation. Gone are the days of boasting about this great little side road that brings you out just past the traffic light that’s causing the jam. The number of cars that come streaming out of all these so-called short-cuts and rejoining the main flow [...]