This is 100% real, not fake: they are calling the camera posts 'totem poles.' The new #CDMX surveillance aesthetic is, yes, fucsia/Mexican pink, with… axolotl

Y'know what is something that I find surprisingly difficult to find in Mexico City?

Corn tortilla chips!

There's convenience stores on every street corner. In America, those shops would be like 20% tortilla chips. That has not been my finding here in Mexico City.

Is that because of American corn subsidies or something? Or are tortilla chips just not a real Mexican thing?

#cdmx#Mexico

After more than a year of reading it on-and-off, I'm almost done with El Vertigo Horizontal, a collection of essays about Mexico City by someone born there in the 1950s. It's been much harder than País sin Techo -- way more literary vocabulary (words my e-reader dictionary also doesn't know) and a less straightforward more dreamy style, which it turns out is harder to read. But it's been sweet.

#CDMX#Books

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50615374-el-v-rtigo-horizontal

A short piece I wrote on grief and collective memory ten years after the Narvarte murders.

"It is humbling to write these words, to contribute to a communal archive of collective memory, with the sense that I have done very little. I tried in my way to lift up the names of the five in the English language. To shout or poke or whisper that, “Hey, look over here. This too needs our care and solidarity.” If anything, it is Mirtha who has taught me how to fight for memory and how to resist through memory."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/08/05/fighting-against-forgetting/

#Mexico#CDMX

A short piece I wrote on grief and collective memory ten years after the Narvarte murders.

"It is humbling to write these words, to contribute to a communal archive of collective memory, with the sense that I have done very little. I tried in my way to lift up the names of the five in the English language. To shout or poke or whisper that, “Hey, look over here. This too needs our care and solidarity.” If anything, it is Mirtha who has taught me how to fight for memory and how to resist through memory."

https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/08/05/fighting-against-forgetting/

#Mexico#CDMX

Algo que escribí para conmemorar diez años desde los asesinatos de Narvarte:

"He visto cómo la presencia de la ausencia ha dejado un espacio sin llenar, un peso inquebrantable. En el mejor de los casos, lo único que he hecho es decir: 'Amiga, no tiene por qué cargar con esto sola'. Y creo que es cargando colectivamente con el peso infinito de cinco vidas robadas, con el peso de la pérdida, la injusticia, el patriarcado, la opresión del Estado y la corrupción, como forjamos la memoria colectiva, como luchamos contra el olvido y como juntos podemos caminar hacia delante con un dolor desafiante."

https://memorialnarvarte.org/luchamos-contra-el-olvido/

#México#CDMX

The always-in-crisis crisis that is Mexico's public health system is worsening. Some headlines just from today:

"Workers in the nutrition area of the Doctor Aurelio Valdivieso Civil Hospital in the city of Oaxaca denounced that they have run out of food for more than 200 patients from various Indigenous communities in the state."

https://aristeguinoticias.com/020825/mexico/sin-alimentos-para-pacientes-en-hospital-de-oaxaca-denuncian-trabajadores/

A national march is planned on August 10 to demand medications for the treatment of cancers, of which there is a severe shortage:

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2025/08/02/politica/011n2pol

#Mexico#CDMX#Oaxaca

The always-in-crisis crisis that is Mexico's public health system is worsening. Some headlines just from today:

"Workers in the nutrition area of the Doctor Aurelio Valdivieso Civil Hospital in the city of Oaxaca denounced that they have run out of food for more than 200 patients from various Indigenous communities in the state."

https://aristeguinoticias.com/020825/mexico/sin-alimentos-para-pacientes-en-hospital-de-oaxaca-denuncian-trabajadores/

A national march is planned on August 10 to demand medications for the treatment of cancers, of which there is a severe shortage:

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2025/08/02/politica/011n2pol

#Mexico#CDMX#Oaxaca

New translations up on @igd_news

On July 31, 2015, Alejandra Negrete, Mile Martín, Nadia Vera, Rubén Espinosa and Yesenia Quiroz were murdered in an apartment in the Narvarte neighborhood of Mexico City.

In the ten years since, their family members, friends, and comrades have been demanding justice and struggling to keep their memories alive. While three people have been detained for the killings, evidence ignored by the Mexico City prosecutor’s office implicates former officials of that office in the killings. It has also refused to investigate the role of the administration of Javier Duarte, former governor of Veracruz, from where Nadia, a radical activist, and Rubén, a journalist, fled fearing for their safety after receiving threats.

To mark ten years, those accompanying the families in their search for truth and justice have created a digital common archive: Memorial Narvarte. Below is a text announcing the archive along with a piece by Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo, the mother of Nadia Vera.

https://itsgoingdown.org/10-years-narvarte-murders-justice-struggle-memory

#Mexico#CDMX

"The echo of my scream arrives muffled, distorted, and dies in the penumbra where bureaucrats write the rules of the game that we will never be able to change."

"That is why I write, to be able to get out of this experience of grief; the word, these words, give me freedom and I am not strong like the world asks of me but, thus, I dignify my fragility."

https://itsgoingdown.org/10-years-narvarte-murders-justice-struggle-memory

#Mexico#CDMX

"This Thursday, July 31, marks the 10th anniversary of the multihomicide of the Narvarte neighborhood in Mexico City; the crime that shook the country and reverberated around the world, whose investigation was plagued with flaws and has not been thoroughly investigated by any of the five prosecutors who have had it on their desks and who, on the contrary, have buried it in impunity, complicity and negligence."

https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/cdmx/2025/7/31/caso-narvarte-10-anos-de-impunidad-entre-negligencia-complicidad-desinteres-355898.html

#Mexico#CDMX

"Ten years have passed since photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and activists Mile Virginia Martín, Yesenia Quiroz, Nadia Vera and Alejandra Negrete were brutally murdered in an apartment in the Narvarte neighborhood. A decade later, impunity continues to mark this crime that shocked the country and showed that Mexico City is not a safe haven for journalists and human rights defenders."

https://www.somoselmedio.com/a-diez-anos-del-caso-narvarte-la-impunidad-persiste-familias-exigen-verdad-y-justicia/

#Mexico#CDMX

"Ten years after the murder of photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and the femicides of Mile Virginia Martín, Yesenia Quiroz, Nadia Vera and Alejandra Negrete in the Narvarte neighborhood, relatives of the victims and the organization ARTICLE 19 denounced that impunity persists in the case.

"'The Mexico City Attorney General's Office (FGJCDMX) has not clarified the motive of the crime nor has it identified all the people responsible, both material and intellectual,' they said in a statement.

"They charged that for a decade they have faced 'institutional negligence, unjustified delay and lack of access to the truth.'"

https://aristeguinoticias.com/310725/mexico/familias-exigen-justicia-a-diez-anos-del-caso-narvarte/

#Mexico#CDMX

"The echo of my scream arrives muffled, distorted, and dies in the penumbra where bureaucrats write the rules of the game that we will never be able to change."

"That is why I write, to be able to get out of this experience of grief; the word, these words, give me freedom and I am not strong like the world asks of me but, thus, I dignify my fragility."

https://itsgoingdown.org/10-years-narvarte-murders-justice-struggle-memory

#Mexico#CDMX

"What do we honor when we create a space of memory? How do we care for those who were taken from us? What communities are created out of grief? How do we confront the paralyzing horror? How do we nurture and sustain a memorial, in person or virtually, over time? These are questions that accompany us and that we have woven collectively with others."

https://itsgoingdown.org/10-years-narvarte-murders-justice-struggle-memory

#Mexico#CDMX

New translations up on @igd_news

On July 31, 2015, Alejandra Negrete, Mile Martín, Nadia Vera, Rubén Espinosa and Yesenia Quiroz were murdered in an apartment in the Narvarte neighborhood of Mexico City.

In the ten years since, their family members, friends, and comrades have been demanding justice and struggling to keep their memories alive. While three people have been detained for the killings, evidence ignored by the Mexico City prosecutor’s office implicates former officials of that office in the killings. It has also refused to investigate the role of the administration of Javier Duarte, former governor of Veracruz, from where Nadia, a radical activist, and Rubén, a journalist, fled fearing for their safety after receiving threats.

To mark ten years, those accompanying the families in their search for truth and justice have created a digital common archive: Memorial Narvarte. Below is a text announcing the archive along with a piece by Mirtha Luz Pérez Robledo, the mother of Nadia Vera.

https://itsgoingdown.org/10-years-narvarte-murders-justice-struggle-memory

#Mexico#CDMX

In preparation for next year's World Cup, part of which will take place in Mexico City, the Mexican state has begun implementing a new protocol to contain demonstrations - basically the deployment of overwhelming force - beginning with protests against gentrification in the city.

https://desinformemonos.org/enorme-despliegue-policial-de-contencion-previo-al-mundial-dilata-y-encapsula-marcha-en-el-sur-de-cdmx/

#Mexico#CDMX#WorldCup

The #CDMX mayor responds, but this is not a list of things you can just do, without funding and legislative buy-in, and it seems like real estate interests will go to the mat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ2KBnz4mqA

A #CDMX affordable #housing play in 3 acts:

An apartment for sale in a cool old building in Santa Maria la Ribera

https://propiedades.com/inmuebles/departamento-en-venta-doctor-atl-269-269-santa-maria-la-ribera-df-29738880