By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For some, they are the very essence of feminine sensuality, their delicate petals unfolding like a vibrant display of female genitalia (think Georgia O’Keeffe’s famous flower paintings that resemble a vagina). For others, they symbolize death and the morose beauty of unobtainable passion. In 1894, H.G. Wells wrote a short story about them, describing their bulbs as
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The Latin America Advisor asks six leading Mexico experts
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By ANTONIO GARZA, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA At least eight people are dead and three missing after Hurricane Grace hit eastern Mexico, Cuitlahuac García, governor of the state of Veracruz, reported on Saturday, Aug. 21, Grace, the second Atlantic hurricane of the season, made landfall in the early hours of Saturday with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour, leading to severe flooding in more
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS A long-term drought has struck more than two-thirds of Mexico’s farmlands, and environmentalists are warning that the situation is only going to get worse in the weeks ahead due to soaring temperatures, severe crop damage and impending water supply shortages. But as experts desperately try to sound the alarm that climate change is already taking a toll
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XINHUA Tropical storm Enrique intensified into a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday, June 26, off the coast of the western Mexican states of Colima and Michoacán, the National Water Commission (Conagua) reported. “At 07:15 a.m., the center of Enrique was located approximately 230 kilometers southwest of Punta San Telmo, Michoacan, and 265 kilometers south-southwest of Manzanillo, Colima,” Conagua said,
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Sign of the Times
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Cold Front in Mexico
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Climate Report
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