Imagine living in a country with restricted freedom of the press. The COVID-19 pandemic hits, and with it, an overwhelming sea of information. Every morning at 7:00 a.m. the president of this country hosts a media conference where he openly denies science. The chief epidemiologist makes up elaborate technical excuses…

Mexican doctors risked their lives with the countries first COVID-related death. This story is about the human impact that faulty testing criteria have during a pandemic. It is also, a possible explanation behind the low number of people with COVID-19 in Mexico. Originally published in Spanish in Aristegui Noticias It…

It’s midnight, Day of the Dead in California. In Mexican culture we believe the afterlife portals are open, and the deceased come to visit us. I light all my candles. Burn some copal, sacred incense, and I call upon my muertos. My brother lies at the center of the small…

In “Roma,” a white-Mexican director tells the story of a brown-skinned indigenous domestic worker — like my friend Zoe Mendelson says, this was bound to generate polemics. The American press hailed it as the “Latest Entry in Alfonso Cuarón’s Feminist Oeuvre” and Naomi Klein called it one of the most…