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Mexico City

The New Aztecs

photography by Kike Arnal

A revival of ancient Aztec culture

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • Culture
  • Indigenous
  • Photography

Stranger Sounds: Mexico City

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Metropolitan musical flavors from Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Music

La Mataviejitas

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The Old Lady Killer of Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Crime

Mexico’s Sinking Cathedral

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  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Architecture

Street Hero

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Meet Peatónito, the superman making crosswalks safe for pedestrians

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Transportation

Outsourcing Call Center Jobs

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  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Communication
  • Immigration
  • Labor

When Gentrification Comes to Roma

Elena Poniatowska
photography by Gala Narezo

What happens when there's no one left to listen to our stories?

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Gentrification
  • Photography

Tepito: Inside Mexico City’s Barrio Bravo

Francisco Goldman

The neighborhood that's been sensationalized, stigmatized and romanticized like no other.

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Barrio
  • Market

The Chilangoth

photography by Kike Arnal

First generation heirs to glam-rock, goth, punk and emo

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Fashion
  • Photography
  • Subculture

Neither from Here Nor There

Sheerly Avni
photography by Nadia Baram

The stories of five US deportees now living in Mexico City.

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Border
  • Immigration
  • Photography

Border surveillance isn’t just on the US-Mexico border

Roger D. Hodge

Inside the Big Pipe

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Border
  • Immigration
  • Refugees

Fictio Legis

Valeria Luiselli

Two couples and a stranger on a plane ride to Mexico City

  • Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • North America
  • Air travel
  • Fiction
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