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October 30th 2006
I don't think it was either bravery or stupidity, but curiosity and the need to see it for ourselves, that drove us to go to the zocalo on Sunday. It was an exqusite dawn, everything seemed so "ordinary" in the usual daily sence of the word. Yet knowing that the police and military were moving towards the center, it was anything but. Some deep compulsion to go, to be there, to witness. Our agreeme ... read more

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more