· July, 2005

Stories about Mexico from July, 2005

Mexico: Mel Gibson's Mayan Epic

Mexicanwave says Mel Gibson is financing a Mayan epic for which he wrote the screenplay and will direct. “Casting of Maya local to the region of Mexico where Gibson will...

29 July 2005

Latin America Responds to TeleSur's Launch

This past Sunday a small group of 25 journalists in Caracas, Venezuela began pilot-broadcasting a new Pan-American satellite news network called TeleSur which, by September, hopes to be reaching audiences...

28 July 2005

Mexico: On my own.

Sergio on Overcaffeinated explains why it is completely normal for one to move out of their parents’ house at 28.

22 July 2005

The State of Free Culture in Latin America

This past weekend at the Contemporary Cultural Center in Barcelona, Spain, an international and multi-lingual group of bloggers, artists, musicians, and lawyers met to discuss the Free Culture movement which...

20 July 2005

teleSUR

El Machete, written by a Mexican studying in Australia, weighs the pros and cons of the future continent-wide television network, teleSUR, in Latin America.

14 July 2005

Cross-Border Conversation on Race

The 1940's creation of famed Mexican writer, Yolanda Vargas Dulché and comic book illustrator, Alberto Cabrera, Memín Pinguín was an unlikely candidate at the time to spark a 21st century...

8 July 2005

Americas Thursday Blog Roundup

Altered Argentina has begun a three part series on Debt for Education swaps in Latin America. Planetablog asks if Haiti and the Dominican Republic could ever form one single nation...

7 July 2005

Americas Daily Blog Roundup

Jeff Barry spreads the word about early 20th century Argentine artist, Xul Solar. Barrio Flores has an excellent post about Bolivian cinema. Blog de Bolivia seeks to explain Carlos Mesa's...

7 July 2005

Americas Roundup

Tomas Sancio of Venezuelan Politics explains why Venezuelans trade Bolívares for US dollars in the black market. Jorge Arena of Arena Space writes on The Devil's Excrement about the recent...

4 July 2005