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.
Author: rfausset
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]
FAST & FURIOUS
Details of the drawings “Fast” & “Furious,” by artist Miguel Angel Rios, currently on display at Mexico City’s Sala de Arte Publica Siqueiros. [RF]
GUNS OF BRIXTON A LA PERUANA
Chicha Libre hails from Brooklyn, but their collective heart is in Lima. On their website they claim to give the chicha treatment to Satie and Wagner, as well.
Not sure if this adds up to more than a novelty song. But sometimes all is forgiven on the dance floor…
HEADS UP
Hi there. My name is Richard Fausset. I’m a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, based in Mexico City. I’m hoping to turn this blog into a repository of good stories, fleeting fixations, random and not-so-random images, & the occasional signpost pointing the way to spiritual allies, comrades, and who-knows-what. The focus, for the time being, will be Mexico and the broader Latin world. As they say in my business, more TK…
Photo: A bucket of rubber doll heads at the Museo del Juguete Antiguo Mexico. [RF]
POINTS SOUTH 