Mexicans succumb to seductions of carbs, sugar, fat
Mexico has the dubious distinction of the world's second fattest country, behind only the United States. With obesity comes a hefty price tag of other diseases, particularly diabetes. Often...
View ArticleAs Mexico's Catholics look elsewhere, evangelicals gain
For hundreds of years, religion in Mexico has meant the stained glass windows and kneeling worship of the city's large Roman Catholic cathedrals. Change has come to Mexico, however: Evangelical…Click...
View ArticleFor 50th birthday, Barbie gets new international wardrobe
Barbie's birthday was marked by a series of exhibits all over the world sponsored by her manufacturer, Mattel, that featured the evolution of the doll, born Barbara Millicent Roberts. In…Click to...
View ArticleFrom the trash of others, Mexican lives take root
Dolores Garcia Perez is one of a few thousand people who survive on the 12,000 tons of trash that metropolitan Mexico City throws out every day. They don't look for…Click to Continue »
View ArticleBlend of music, dance, martial arts takes hold in Mexico
The sounds of Africa, Brazil and Arabia echoed through the tiny studio, bringing 25 students together in a circle to sing what sounded like an African-American spiritual. Two fighters jumped…Click to...
View ArticleMexican takes action after her son is kidnapped, killed
Hugo Wallace left his home on July 11, 2005, ostensibly for a date to see the movie "Fantastic Four" with a pretty woman who'd been introduced to him as "Claudia,"Click to Continue »
View ArticleNew reason for Mexican immigration to U.S.: Drug violence
Mexican immigration to the United States has been almost entirely an economic issue for the past few decades. Politicians have fine-tuned their positions around what to do about illegal...
View ArticleAmerican retirees make a life in Mexico, cheaply
An estimated million American expatriates live in Mexico, the largest community of American expatriates anywhere in the world. They come to Mexico for its sunshine and warm weather, its proximity…Click...
View ArticleJews in Mexico find it a place to thrive and serve
Mexico City's 50,000-strong Jewish community is the third largest in Latin America. They're thriving, diverse and multinational, but also close-knit and unusually self-sufficient when it comes to...
View ArticleIn macho culture, gays find acceptance in Mexico City district
Gay activists say that even though laws are improving in relatively more liberal places such as Mexico City ? where legislators passed a law two years ago recognizing same-sex marriages…Click to...
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