The short story “San Manuel Bueno, Martir” by the Spanish existentialist Miguel de Unamuno can help us to sort out the feelings of the unbelieving minister.
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Posted inArt, Arts & Culture
The stunning (and underappreciated) Mexican influence on American art
In the early 20th century, American artists were intoxicated by the way Mexican muralists transformed their people’s struggle for justice into narrative imagery.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The border divides a family in Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s affecting memoir
Castillo writes with gorgeous precision and sensitivity about his experience as a boy growing into a man in a country that will not recognize him, his family split across borders.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Ill-prepared for Covid-19, Mexico City prisons continue to allow visitors
At each of Mexico City’s 13 prisons, hundreds of people are still admitted each visiting day to see their imprisoned family members. For the inmates, they are a vital lifeline.
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Experts decry Mexico coronavirus policy delay
The Mexican government has defended its policies, saying that its robust health surveillance system gives it a good idea of how the epidemic is evolving and that health experts are charting the country’s fight against the virus.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The United States has criminalized asylum seeking. Covid-19 gives us a reason to reconsider.
The coronavirus poses a new threat to asylum seekers in detention centers and in crowded camps, writes Kathleen Bonnette of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S.-Mexico border humanitarians scramble to curb coronavirus
The “social distancing” required by the coronavirus is making it more difficult to provide essential services to migrants and asylum seekers stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border, writes J.D. Long-García.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Fear and uncertainty haunt Mexico’s monarch butterfly reserve after activists’ murder
A shadow hangs over El Rosario where each year millions of monarch butterflies alight on the reserve’s fir trees. Two local protectors of Mexico’s monarch preserve have been killed, and so far, no one can say what happened to them.
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Vatican sends abuse experts to Mexico to help church in safeguarding
Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna of Malta, adjunct secretary of the doctrinal congregation, will be accompanied by Spanish Father Jordi Bertomeu Farnos, a congregation official, on a visit to Mexico City March 20-27.
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Mexican bishops call for action, boosting families as femicide increases
Mexico’s bishops called for action after a spate of slayings of women and girls — crimes known as femicide — that have provoked anger and protests, but also highlighted the country’s machismo culture and deep-seated problems such as impunity.