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Mexico

Neither from Here Nor There

Sheerly Avni
photography by Nadia Baram

The stories of five US deportees now living in Mexico City.

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Border
  • Immigration
  • Refugees

Border surveillance isn’t just on the US-Mexico border

Roger D. Hodge

Inside the Big Pipe

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Border
  • Immigration
  • Refugees

Fictio Legis

Valeria Luiselli

Two couples and a stranger on a plane ride to Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Air travel
  • Fiction

Defending Life and Water

Madeleine Wattenbarger

The struggle over clean drinking water taps into a conflict at the heart of life in Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Environment
  • Water

Stories on Skin

photography by Federico Gama

Tattoos across Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Photography
  • Tattoos

Improvising Survival

David Lida

The clash between the new global gentrifiers and Mexico City’s informal economies.

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • Gentrification
  • Poverty

Bullfighting

Stranger’s Guide

Three-quarters of Mexicans support a ban

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Sports

The Pulque Chronicles

Daniel Hernandez

Mexico’s pre-Hispanic alcoholic drink finds new life in the city’s old school bars.

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Drink
  • Food

The Underworld

Stranger’s Guide

The sewer diver of Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Diving

Did You Know?

Día de los Muertos

Fascinating facts about Day of the Dead

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • South America

Eternal Funeral Pyres

Stranger’s Guide

The myth behind the Mexican volcanoes Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • South America
  • Mountain

Did You Know?

Santa Muerte

The folk saint of Mexico

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • South America
  • Magic
  • Religion
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