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Taller buildings in several parts of the city were evacuated today, employees return to the building above and some wore no masks at all, even in the metro, others ate street food or in taco shops were much of the food is served up by hand.
So there was a slight shaking of the building just now (mi primer earthquake) . . . man what is coming next?
Insurgentes was oddly quiet yesterday, almost no one there A man crosses the empty streets of Alvaro Obregon on Sunday, almost no shops open, even today a large amount of places were still closed when I left my neighborhood at 930a.
Deaths in Mexico due to swine flu have risen to 103, tomorrow I’m heading out to some neighborhoods outside of Roma and El Centro . . . I’ll keep you updated as we go. From the article above: “Yes, it’s quite possible for this virus to evolve,” Keiji Fukuda, acting WHO assistant director-general for health, security and the environment, told journalists in Geneva. ….
I’m sure many of you have been seeing the ongoing coverage going on about the pandemic potential going on in Mexico. As well there are 8 confirmed cases reported by the CDC in San Diego County, Imperial County in California and in San Antonio, Texas. The mood in Mexico City is quiet, sad in my opinion, how empty the streets are. Bars are being…
So to start off the next twenty wonderful days I have in this city I wanted to put together a blog post of all of the blogs I link to of fellow journalists, photographers and videographers in DF. From covering cultura to hiphop to art or whatever else is on their mind . . . mariachi ghosts even . . . it is a…
It is Wednesday morning in beautiful, sunny Phoenix, Ariz. and flying out to Mexico City. I feel delirious from lack of sleep but I’m excited for the next three weeks before joining the majority of my friends and family in the work force, definitely not forced in my case, as I graduate in May.
I am proud to say that my in-depth journalism course that worked on the Divided Families project at Arizona State University has won the college print journalism RFK Memorial award!. Courtney Sargent I am posting two soundslides done on two different stories, the first is of Courtney Sargent’s A Generation Abandoned about seniors abandoned in DIF homes in Agua Prieta, Sonora and Douglas, Arizona…
Melissa Little/St. Peters The writing in this feature piece about Dani floored me. St. Petersburg Times writer Lane Degregory wrote about Dani, a little girl so badly neglected for years that she was “made” autistic. Since being removed from the home she has been adopted by a wonderful couple, but the story is amazing . . . See the full multimedia and written piece…
My family spent the weekend visiting my Tia Margarita at the Cochise Stronghold in Southern Arizona. The area, surrounding by forestland (their trailer on the reservation there) is beautiful. These were just some of the pictures I liked.
Deanna Dent 