Venice Biennale: Attacking Mexico with Mexico’s Consent

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY — If there was a piece to summarize Mexico’s 2022 exhibition Venice Biennalewould be Naomi Rincón Gallardo dark allegory “Vermin Sonnet.” In the 20-minute video, a bat, a snake, a scorpion and a chorus of frogs desperately find their way through a futuristic world ravaged by environmental destruction and social disorder. Rejected …

Candid Portraits of Mexico’s Third-Gender Mux

[ad_1] Estrella has long, wavy, jet-back hair. In the backyard of his house, between chickens, hammocks, and looms, he tries to tame her with a coarse-toothed comb. Relatives come and go around. It’s November 2015 and Estrella is preparing for the annual festival called La Vela de las Auténticas Intrépidas Buscadoras del Peligro, or Festival …

Tropical Storm Nora Washes Mexico’s Eyelashes with Heavy Rains

[ad_1] Tropical Storm Nora was knocked down from a hurricane on Sunday, the day after it formed, as it battered Mexico’s west coast and unleashed a life-threatening flood of rain and flash floods, forecasters said. At noon local time, National Hurricane Center He said the storm was moving to the northwest and was about 85 …

Drought Hits the Southwest, and New Mexico’s Canals Are Drying

[ad_1] LEDOUX, NM — Ledoux, a remote village nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, has relied on a network of irrigation ditches to irrigate its crops for more than a century. The outpost’s acequias, as New Mexico’s legendary canals are known, are filled with snowmelt and rains each year. But while the Southwest is …