Pictures From Our Chiapas Trip


Adios Mexico!!

So we are about to leave mexico. We have spent the day in mexico city, and about 1 day too many here, really.. It is pretty disgusting here, very unlike Chiapas. We took a colectivo from san cristobol to tuxla, then a plane from tuxla to toluca, then a colectivo-bus sort of thing from toluca [...]

que hora es??

We are still in san cristobol. We took a nice hike up into the forest, found some mushrooms, mostly rossulas, and a few amanitas, and several hedgehog mushrooms and also elfin saddles. Then we ran into this cute mexican indigenous guy (the only person  we saw). He immediately shook our hands and was surprised to [...]

Saint Christopher of the Houses and the cult of Coca Cola

So we are in San Cristobal de las casas. It's a fairly touristy city, but it pretty nice.  It is a very old city with old churches.  We are staying at a nice bed and breakfast place with an American expatriate. It's a very nice place to stay and fairly inexpensive and there are 3 [...]

Los Cohens en Ocosingo

Greetings from the heart of zapatistaland, Ocosingo!

   It's amazingly beautiful here. We arrived here this afternoon, and took a look through the town. There is a big central market here where the people sell vegetables and random stuff. Little children yell Gringo Gringo! at us, but they are also smiling in [...]

Buenos dias de Palenque, Chiapas!

So we are in Palenque, Chiapas today. We arrived yesterday. This is one of the centers of the Zapatista revolution several years back. Chiapas is still under the control of the zapatistas to some extent.  We took a tour up into the mountains today and saw several signs, etc that say, ÿou are in zapatista country. They are [...]

buenos dias from mexico!!

Hi everyone from mexico!

They have very silly characters on their keyboards here like Ç and ? and ¿ and I keep hitting them by accident. Anyway, so we are in villahermosa with is in Tobasco. It is warm ad humid, but it´s tolerable. Our flights were all on time and we got here in good [...]

Gradually the corruption began to take the scale of a national disaster. As fertile soil for it were - pseudo-legal privatization, non-transparency of import of energy resources, vacuum of state power in territories - in districts and municipalities, actions of new monopolists such as “Moldfarm“, tax amnesties and writing offs of [...]