Joseph P. Duggan
MEXICO CITY, April 27, 2009 — On the crowded sidewalks of Paseo de la Reforma, a dark-eyed office worker held a cell phone to her left ear and with her free hand pulled down her blue medical mask to reveal…
MEXICO CITY — On his way to glad-hand Hugo Chávez and Daniel Ortega at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad last weekend, President Barack Obama did a one-day drop-by in this capital. His meetings with President Felipe Calderón were…
It is sad but scarcely surprising to learn that the crisis of the ink-and-paper media industry is taking its toll on what once was one of the broadsheets’ grand old Southern dames — the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On April 2, hemorrhaging…
SAN FRANCISCO DEL RINCÓN, Mexico — A sign of Mexico’s political evolution is the creation of its first presidential library and museum, in the fashion of the libraries archiving and commemorating the administrations of Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton…
MEXICO CITY — Imagine an American Secretary of State one morning praying at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall and the next evening accepting a eugenics award named for Dr. Josef Mengele. That is an apt analogy to the repugnant juxtaposition of gestures…
(Note: Secretary of State Clinton will travel to Mexico today to prepare for a visit next month by President Obama. The author is lecturing and writing in Mexico this spring.) SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico — A big boulevard called Himno…
(Note: Secretary of State Clinton will visit Mexico March 25 to prepare for a visit next month by President Obama. The author is lecturing and writing in Mexico this spring.) LAREDO — As I walked out on the sidewalks of…
It is a signal occasion when a Pope sends a circular letter to all the world’s bishops. Usually such letters are classified as encyclicals (the Greek cognate of the Latinate “circular,”) and they are expressions of the magisterium, or definitive…
COBÁ, Mexico — The view from the summit of Nohuch Mul, the tallest pyramid of the Yucatán peninsula, is evocative of Walker Percy’s prescient futuristic satire, written at the end of the 1960s but fictionally set in our time. In…
