The Bajío gastronomic festival at the Cantina Palacios includes an array of traditional Bajío gastronomic specialties, carefully curated and supervised by master chef Cynthia Martínez, culinary director of La Conspiración de 1809 restaurant in Morelia, Michoacán
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In just over four years, and with still 17 months to go, the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is on track to be the bloodiest six-year presidential term in the history of Mexico
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It looks as though leftist Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial “hugs, not bullets” policy is not working too well
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So far this year, at least 20 people have died from drug-related violence in Jerez, a town of just 57,000, and at least 16 people have gone missing
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The nopal was considered sacred by the ancient Aztecs, and modern-day Mexicans use it as food, drink and even as medicine
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According to a report from Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), which was updated this month, there are a total of 128,233 GN agents throughout the country
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Figures indicate that an average of 86 people are violently murdered each day in Mexico in 2022. Almost all the causes have a common denominator, and that is the drug violence that prevails throughout the country. Massacres, forced disappearances and shootings are the daily bread in states like Jalisco, Tamaulipas, Guanajuato, Zacatecas and Michoacán. In
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By MARK LORENZANA Just hours after Roberto Elías Martínez, a control judge in the northern Mexican state of Zacatecas, died of gunshot wounds he had sustained during a shooting by suspected members of a drug cartel the previous day, that state’s main penitentiary, Cieneguillas, registered a violent prisoner riot and attempted prisoner escape on Sunday, Dec. 4, followed by a
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán —The constant climate of extreme violence in which Mexico has lived since the start of the so-called drug war in 2006 has left a huge red stain in the modern history of the country. From 2006 to 2021 alone, it is estimated that 350,000 people were killed in the country because of drug wars and power
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Most people familiar with Mexico know about Huichol art, the vividly colored, sometimes-hypnotic, psychedelia-style creations of the indigenous people of the central states of Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas and Nayarit, known in their own language as the Wixáritari. Who has not been dumbstruck by the intricate, spiritually significant and brilliantly hued beaded folk art that now adorns museums
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