Happy New Year 2010 to Everone!

By Liliana Elena Gonzalez

@mexatua

May The Year 2009 Bring for You Happiness, Success, Hope & Prosperity.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.  Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.  Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our

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Noche de los Muertos Day of the dead celebration in Tzintzuntzan

As October comes to a close, the little pueblo of Tzintzuntzan begins it’s preparations for one of its biggest festivals – Noche de los Muertos. Everyone in town is busy, flowers are fixed to the archway leading to the cemetery, large orange marigolds and red cockscomb appear in every corner of the village. Some people

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Globos de Cantoya National Contest in Paracho

By Liliana Elena Gonzalez

@mexatua

Globo de Cantoya is a big balloon made out of thousands of china paper sheets (from 4 to 2000+) impelled to the sky by a hot device. They are made in different shapes and sizes, picturing animals, persons, geometrical figures, you name it.

The contest will be held in Paracho Michoacan with more

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Reflections on living with violence in Mexico

Picture taken at 7.45 pm at plaza del Carmen. San José church at back.

By Linda Pierce,

As I write this, I hear the sound of helicopters overhead from my house 2 blocks from the main plaza in Morelia. It is been a frequent sound all day today, a not surprising sound after explosions last night

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