Year of Decision 1712 January 14, 2022 Sporadic road closures persist along the routes north to Palenque.  Several commercial tour buses traveling back to San […]

El Encuentro January 16, 2022 A dog barks from the top of a steep forested trail, as we climb above the last neighborhood in Rancho […]

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 […]