Category: Our man in Chiapas

Martin Pale Santiz Rules January 22, 2022 News was slow to travel that Martin Pale Santiz was released from jail.  The kingpin of Los Motonetos […]

The Beat Goes On January 25, 2022 “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, … who disappeared into the volcanoes of […]

Julius Caesar Sold Me a Jaguar January 27, 2022 Julius Caesar says the jaguar costs fifty pesos, which seems to me rather expensive.  However, this […]

Hospital in the Dark February 2, 2022 Forgive the lateness of this dispatch, but I was delayed. On the 2nd of February, while I was […]

Amber has long intrigued me as a geologic specimen (which I certainly am), at least since I first read Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, in which […]

Signs of San Patricios March 16, 2022 I came to this world like me father before, Where for 200 years we had known only war, […]

Benito’s Birthday March 21, 2022 The sun perfectly aligned at its celestial midpoint when Benito Juarez was born, in Guelatao, Oaxaca, thus beginning his rendezvous […]

Grutas de Mamut March 30, 2022 “The Zapatista Caracol 10 in Ocosingo has set up a road block calling for an end to the war […]

Huitepec April 6, 2022 All the Creatures at this Party. We arrive at Eugenio’s cabins just in time for dinner.  The collection of tiny bungalows […]

Semana Santa in San Cris April 12, 2022 This year Palm Sunday, the beginning of Semana Santa (Holy Week), is a bigger day than usual […]