Mexico

Brazilian Protestors, Take Note: This Could End Badly

A 1968 Massacre in Mexico—the Last Country to Host a Summer Olympics and World Cup Back-to-Back—Holds Tragic Lessons

Protestors clashed with riot police as the World Cup kicked off in Sao Paulo, the latest manifestation of widespread discontent with the expensive (and behind-schedule) preparations for the massive sporting event. Even as protests threaten to mar the spectacle, this summer launches Brazil’s highly anticipated coming-out party. For two full years, between this summer’s World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics, South America’s dominant power will be the epicenter of global sport and its supporting popular and corporate cultural realms. Holding onto the international sporting spotlight for such an extended …

by Jacob Glenn |

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Does America Have the World’s Worst Movie Theaters?

A Mexican Company Is Building Luxury Cineplexes in India. If We're Lucky, They Might Change Movie-Going for All of Us in the Process.

by Andrés Martinez |

Improbable though it sounds, many people in India looking to splurge on a night out at a luxury movie theater entrust their rupees to a Mexican theater operator: Cinépolis.

“When we …

Don’t Just Laugh at My Meme

From Protesting Subway Fare Hikes to Calling Out Public Officials, Mexicans Are Using Memes Against Impunity

by David Sasaki |

You can learn a lot about a culture though its social media memes. In Mexico City they have become a vehicle through which Mexico’s new middle class is asserting itself …

Why Mexico Is California’s China

It’s Time to Start Thinking of Our Southern Neighbor as a Partner on the Rise

by Joe Mathews |

Don’t look now, Californians. Mexico is about to pass us.

Americans are intensely aware that China, with its rapid growth and expanding middle class, is likely to have a bigger economy …

It’s Monday Night in Hollywood. That Means Salsa.

Whirling and Wondering at El Floridita, Where the Food Is Cuban, the Dancing Is Pan-American, and the Setting Is This Strange Place Called Los Angeles

by Tania Flores |

“¿De dónde eres?” asks the young man who offered me his hand and guided me onto the dance floor moments ago. He’s an intuitive leader, and, wedged as we are …

Gay—and Returning to Mass

How a Funeral, a Pope, and the Passage of Time Brought Me Back to a Tender, More Forgiving Church

by Gabriel Reyes |

I set foot in a Catholic church today for the first time in decades. I am one of those lapsed Catholics you’ve heard about. There are millions of us around …


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