Lydia Carey

Before the pandemic, the night shift that Juan and Hugo work at a 24-hour taco stand in Mexico City’s Del Valle neighborhood did a booming trade. Nowadays a trickle of evening diners stop by for a taco, but the crowds of last year are mostly gone. It’s a common scene across the city, where those who can are mostly working from home (and no longer reliant on street food for a cheap meal) and the number of tourists, who were increasingly coming to samp

Four female winemakers in one of Mexico's most conservative regions are bucking stereotypes and changing the face of winemaking in Mexico.

Time-honored pan de muerto recipes are part of what keep Mexicans connected to the intimacy of the Day of the Dead holiday, and there is nothing like being in the kitchen to give you a sense of home in surrealistic 2020.

I never thought I would miss the obligatory cheek kiss...until it was gone.

A city beekeeper is using her influence to try and encourage beekeeping and the love of bees in Mexico City and beyond.

Less than a mile away from an endless stream of Mexico City traffic,

I am at the water’s edge, staring into the face of a grazing dairy

cow. In a bright blue boat with a flat bottom, I listen to the chirp of

nearby cranes and wave good morning to children being paddled

to school in canoes.

When I walked into the mass and saw twenty mariachis in the middle of the crush of parishioners I chuckled to myself, wondering what I had been thinking.

I know Mexico well at this point. Not so well that cultural quirks like Candelaria don't still draw me in, but well enough to know that no Mexican holiday is ever complete without music, dancing and of course, fireworks. Sure enough, there were workers setting up the firework tower outside and a fair-like atmosphere in the street.

Due to the COVID crisis in Mexico City, a mutual aid group has formed to help local residents withstand the economic and social impact of quarantine.

The Covid pandemic has revealed that Mexico City's pollution problem goes much deeper than simply lots of cars on the road. This piece explains why the Valley of Mexico has such particular social, political and geographical elements that add to the toxic mix.

A 20 year foundation is working Chiapas to redesign how marginalized kids get educated and the access to that education through a scholarship program and work with local teachers.

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“Caliente!” Juan calls out, and we all duck to avoid the steaming hot pan as it floats across the kitchen. Each day for the three weeks leading up to Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead holiday, Tito Garcia, the stand’s owner, and the rest of the crew, will make hundreds of pan de muerto sweet rolls, as part of the Jamaica Market’s holiday romería.

Like a lot of us, the Galicia family was looking forward to 2020. Farming along the city’s southern canals for generations, they are stewards of the chinampa agricultural system, one of the oldest on the planet.

The Vallarta Botanical Gardens is in the fight of its life to save the pristine river canyon and forest of Los Horcones river just outside of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

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