November 12, 2009

Mexico City Dream Trip

Mexico City Dream Trip

I wish
there was some way
to get
you & Mexico City together.

You’d enjoy it.

Your sharp blue eyes would
pick out everything
there is to see,
& you’d walk around
saying nothing
while your mind took everything in
& stored it.
What excitement
you would find there!
What material for dreams!

November 8, 2009

The Disappearance of Pedro Gomez

He met him on the third day of the second week after he opened his psychology practice on Rio Mississippi Street in mid-January, 1973 when his receptionist, Luisa Mercedes Rodriguez opened his office door, came in, closed it and said:

“Doctor Manning, he is here!”

“Who is ‘he,’ Luisa?” glancing down at his appointment book [...]

November 4, 2009

The Eagle and the Donkey: A Story of the Christmas Season

A group of students take their teacher, Eric Lindahl, out on the town in Mexico City’s Plaza Garibaldi during the Christmas season. They are in for some big surprises when a local tough shows up and harasses their teacher, and an even bigger one when their teacher turns into a donkey, and a new corrido is [...]

October 14, 2009

The House on Usumacinta Street

Ex-pat Joseph Manning falls asleep waiting for his friends Mel and Wanda Blackstone in the apartment they’ve rented in an old mansion. Wanda insists the apartment is haunted. Dr. Manning learns she may just be right. [...]

September 16, 2009

“The Storm”

This is Eric Lindahl’s story, and I’ll let him tell it like he told it to me a few days before he left for Des Moines, Iowa. I didn’t experience the storm, because Lisa and I were in Cuernevaca visiting her family, but I heard about it in the news, and read about it in [...]

September 13, 2009

CONTESTACIÓN A UN RETO

A partir del punzante, humorístico y crítico artículo publicado recientemente en esta SWI por Tim Roux expuse en el mismo el comentario que ahora incluyo aquí a modo de artículo modificado y [...]

September 1, 2009

MEDICINA TRADICIONAL MEXICANA

Recientemente la Universidad Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M.) presentó el resultado de un esfuerzo monumental, consistente en la construcción de una enciclopedia multimedia especializada en la medicina tradicional [...]

July 30, 2009

Where I find my characters…and how that plays out in my writing

A simple answer is that I find them everywhere: birds, monkeys, people I meet, communities and even huge cities which, at first glance, seems impossible but in my experience, isn’t. To me, “character” has first to do with meeting, then seeing the whole. One definition of character is: “The inherent complex of attributes that determine [...]

July 3, 2009

¿VOTAR O ANULAR? FALSO DILEMA

¿Será el voto nulo como el futuro termidor (cuya etimología alude al hecho de dar calor) de la democracia mexicana? Así definen algunos al fenómeno, en franca y preocupada alusión al undécimo mes del calendario republicano francés, que empezaba el 19 de julio y terminaba el 17 de agosto, y durante el cual (“9 de termidor”) se suscitó el episodio del golpe de Estado con que la Revolución Francesa dio fin al Terror e instauró en su lugar la reacción de la Convención (27 de julio de [...]

June 26, 2009

LA RELEVANCIA DEL ZAPATO

En estos días muy próximos a las elecciones intermedias en México, los temas de discusión central han sido el voto nulo y el voto blanco. Al buscar en Google la combinación exacta “voto nulo” obtenemos 495 mil referencias. Con la combinación “voto blanco”, 363 mil [...]

June 13, 2009

Stayin’ Alive. Ah. Ha, Ha, Ha….

Stayin’ Alive. Ah. Ha, Ha, Ha….

by John Armor

       Saturday Night Fever begins with the classic scene of a very young John Travolta striding through the streets of Brooklyn.  His shoes slap the pavement, his body sways to the rhythm of the Bee-Gees’ immortal song, played sotto voce, Stayin’ Alive.  The story is about the attempt [...]

May 16, 2009

The War on Our Southern Border

The War on Our Southern Border
By Alan Caruba

Among the latest news out of Mexico was the discovery of four U.S. citizens found in a van, strangled, beaten and stabbed in the border city of Tijuana. The victims, ages 19 to 21, were two men and two women from San Diego and Chula Vista areas.

In 2008, [...]

May 7, 2009

A Mexican jail

I must go. I need permission from my fiancé’s family to marry my intended. It’s ~700 miles from Houston to Tampico, Mexico, across the border at Brownsville/Matamoros. Half way between Matamoros and Ciudad Victoria, on a desolate highway, my old Ford dies. Four hours later, after accepting a ride from a passing stranger, who says [...]

April 28, 2009

ENTRE MALAS “INFLUENZAS” TE VEAS

Recientemente recibí el correo de un familiar acerca de la epidemia de INFLUENZA en México. Anoto y añado algunas precisiones que bien cabe aclarar. Sirva este texto a modo de [...]

April 28, 2009

Swine Flu – A comment from our Contributor in Mexico

Jose Antonio De La Vega Torres http://indiciosmagazine.wordpress.com/ is one of our valued contributors who lives in Mexico and posts his articles in Spanish.  I wrote to him asking him how he was doing and for his comments on the Swine Flu from his perspective in Mexico.  With his permission are his comments below:

“Easy, man. Easy. Thanks [...]