A Retired Teacher in Mexico City

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Puebla is the fourth largest city in Mexico.  It is a major industrial center (the world's largest Vo...

Alejandro and I have already taken a couple of weekend trips to the city of Puebla, but I wanted to return there this holiday weekend to see...

Downtown Puebla on a Friday night Alejandro and I arrived in Puebla yesterday afternoon at around 1:30.  Before checking into our hot...

Two weekends ago, I was disappointed that the clouds did not allow us to have a good view of the volcanoes Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl whe...

On November 20, 1910,  Francisco Madero, an opponent of the dictator Porfirio Díaz, called upon the Mexican people to rise up against the di...

Today I went downtown, and as I headed toward the "Zócalo", Mexico City's main plaza, I could see that something was going on....