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planeta · Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:01 am Post subject: Mexico Connect

This topic features news from the Mexico Connect website, a vast and dynamic online resource center supported by a searchable and cross-indexed database of more than 10,000 articles and 1,700 photographs collected over the past ten years.
http://www.mexconnect.com

Mexico Connect · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:46 am Post subject:

planeta · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: Ilya Adler Column

New on Mexico Connect
http://www.mexconnect.com

You Owe Me One! Or the concept of favors in Mexico and in the U.S.A.
Commentary by Ilya Adler
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/bzm/bzmadler0506.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 8:30 am Post subject: Marketing to the Hispanic Market

Ignacio "Nacho" Hernandez, Jr. is a wonderful bridge builder between Hispanics and the mainstream US and Canadian culture.

He explores "Marketing to the Hispanic Market" in a two-part series on http://www.mexconnect.com/

Here's the first:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/ihernandez/ihernandez0506.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject: bark paper

Did you know that most Mexican "bark paper" comes from wild fig trees?

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbdid0706.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject: Tastoan masks

The Tastoanes in Mexico have a different role than that of the classic Christians vs. Moors drama.

Tastoan dancer and mask maker Prudencio Guzman shares his understanding of the mysterious characters.

http://www.mexconnected.com/mex_/travel/ecassin/ecassin0706.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject:

In September, Mexico Connect focuses on a wide range of Mexico books:

an anthology of short stories by women
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/rpomade/rpomade0906.html

an encyclopedia
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/jtipton/jtipton0906.html

a sort of ethnography
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/acogan/ac0906b.html

a thoughtful look at immigration - legal and illegal
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/acogan/ac0906c.html

more
http://www.mexconnect.com

Mexico Connect · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: Ecological ert

Mexico Connect arts editor Erin Cassin interviews Alan Vazquez, whose playful paintings show a strong ecological focus.

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/ecassin/ecassin0107.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: organic coffee

Mexico is finding a growing world market for organic and other kinds of coffee. Read more about Mexico's gourmet coffee on Mexico Connect.

http://mexconnect.com/mex_/recipes/puebla/kg0307.html

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The Museum of the Desert in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico is always changing, always exploring this unique ecosystem's diversity. Join Travis Whitehead for a tour of the museum.

http://mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/twhitehead/twhitehead0707.html

An original photostrip complements the report:

http://mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/twhitehead/saltillomuseum/index1.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: The Slow Food Movement in Mexico

Slow Food is a worldwide, non-profit, member-supported eco-gastronomic organization dedicated to the preservation of regional foods, the culinary arts, and interest in the food we eat, where it comes from, and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

The Slow Food movement was begun in Italy in the late 1980s by Carlo Petrini. Today, Slow Food International has over 85,000 members, with branches in fifty countries. In Mexico, several prominent chefs are members of Slow Food International.

This year's congress in Puebla, the first to be held in a non-European country, will convene 700 delegates from all over the world.

Read more here:
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/recipes/puebla/kg1107.html

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Maseual Siuat Xochitajkitinij, or "Indigenous Women, Weavers of Flower," works toward the revalorization and cultural conservation of traditional handicrafts. This women's group is also promoting equity between men and women in the workplace...

Read Fulbright Garcia-Robles Scholar, Samantha Raneri's story in Mexconnect. She has been working with a cooperative of indigenous women in the Sierra Norte region of Puebla.

http://mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/sraneri/sraneri0108.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject: New eco-aware beach resort

Loreto Bay, a 3-billion-dollar, 6,000-home development in Baja California Sur, may be the most eco- and socially-aware resort project anywhere in the country.

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/tonysarticles/loretobay.html

Mexico Connect · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: Wildflower Hunting in Durango

Driving across the state of Durango, flowers paint each region's landscapes with local colors. Wildflower lovers enjoy Durangan flowers nearly all year long.

Join Jeffrey R. Bacon, professor and research scientist at the Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, as he describes some of the regions rich plant life in Mexico Connect.

http://mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/jrbaccon/jbacon0608.html

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"Mexico City offers us a mirror of our urban prospects, and Americans ignore its example somewhat at their peril," writer David Lida affirms.

Anthony Wright interviews the author of First Stop in the New Worldin Mexconnect:

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/awright/awright0908.html