Here are Los Titanes de Durango, making like gangster Lewis Carrolls with the fantastic neologism “Los Alcapones,” a compression of “Al” and “Capone” –the new word, apparently, signifying general bad-assitude, and sounding so naturally Spanish that you wonder if it could slip by the Real Academia Española.
Month: May 2013
BLUES FOR AZTLAN
Detail of agitprop painting at a pro-immigration rally, Mexico City, May 2013. [RF]
VAQUEROS
Tonatico, Estado de Mexico, May 4. [RF]
PLAYING DEAD
Photos: Young activists in Mexico City protesting US immigration policy, and the often harsh fate of migrants as they move across Mexico toward the northern border. May 3, Mexico City, Paseo de la Reforma. [RF]
OBAMA IN MEXICO
The president arrived in the Mexican capital today, where he talked security and the economy with Enrique Peña Nieto, his Mexican counterpart. Tomorrow a speech, and then off to Costa Rica for a meeting with the presidents of Central America. Obama enjoys a 54% approval rating among Mexicans.
LA Times coverage here, here, here, here and here.
Above: Baffling (heartfelt? offensive?) art brut from the mind-bending gallery “Bad Paintings of President Barack Obama.”
CHAVO
Random kid, Costa Chica, Guerrero. [RF]
POINTS SOUTH 