Tag: Hidalgo

• Poverty, inevitability, and synthetic clothing

  When I arrived back in Mexico City in January, everyone was talking about the lines for gas. Recently-inaugurated president López Obrador shut down parts of the national oil and gas distribution network to combat oil theft. I enjoyed the memes doing the rounds, but didn’t think too much more about gas. In the days after […]

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  March 11, 2019

  Research

  Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Hidalgo, Mexico, oil, Tlahuelilpan, Writing

• The magic of Tecozautla

  Mexico City is a great base for doing field work (and also for not getting any work done), but is very much its own bubble. I had to take at least a peek beyond the bubble, during my weeks here. Tecozautla, in Hidalgo state, is a pueblo magico. Back when I first lived in Mexico, […]

  philipljohnson

  July 26, 2017

  Place & memory

  Hidalgo, Mexico, Tecozautla