Blog posts tagged "Mexico"

December 31, 2010 1:30 pm 1 Comment

No-one asked me to recommend my Books of the Year, but I’m going to tell you anyway! I've chosen four books on countries which I've reported from, blogs Lindsey Hilsum.

August 25, 2010 3:48 pm 1 Comment

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on why it is hard for journalists to report on the increasingly violent drug war in Mexico

May 4, 2010 2:57 pm 1 Comment

To get to the Beach of South Pass is to get to the last edge of the United States. A wild and deserted sandbank with eight foot reeds blowing in the hot Gulf wind. Patrols of pelicans pass lazily by. But of the oil there is no sign. Out to sea the drilling rigs, grey [...]

May 1, 2009 11:33 am 6 Comments

LA GLORIA, MEXICO – As we arrived the little Mexican mountain hamlet of La Gloria, where the swine flu epidemic may or may not have begun, we were all a little nervous about infection. Apparently about 400 people here had suffered serious flu symptoms in the last month or so. And any kind of flu [...]

April 30, 2009 11:19 am 11 Comments

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – It’s very hard to eat with a mask on. Our team in Mexico City are trying very hard to abide by all the hygiene precautions that should help prevent us from catching swine flu. It feels very rude to refuse to shake the hands of people you are interviewing, but we have been [...]