buried mirror: latest reflections

Incidents of virtual travel in Mesoamerica.

• A fine collection of Mexican colonial art : In Davenport, Iowa?
• San Francisco’s putative Mexican Museum gets $250,000 : Will it ever actual open?
• The Mixed Blessings of Mexican Dual Citizenship : Double military obligations anyone?
• The Lost Murals of Miguel Covarrubias : At the San Jose (California) Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival
• Maya altar from classic period to be reconstructed : Few objects from this period have been found in northern Yucatan

Incidents of virtual travel in Mesoamerica and the Maya world

• Natural Guatemalan Color Palette : It goes with caldos
• Jade sheds light on Guatemala’s geologic history : I’ts more complicated than had been thought
• Guatemala stops ex-officials from leaving country : But did it do the same for the cocaine?
• Plants of the Ancient Maya : Identification of important plants to the ancient Maya is still in its early stages
• Lo cruel que es el discurso de ricos y pobres : “Si no fuera cruel, sería sólo cínico”
• J.D. Smith’s top 5 mariachi links : Volver volver volver

Incidents of virtual travel in Mesoamerica and the Maya world.

• Ancient Maya practiced forest conservation : Well, duh
• Conditions not ripe for coup in Guatemala : Analysts say
• Horned Guans : “turkey-sized creatures with white sewn-on eyes and ludicrous senses of dignity”
• Coke-bottle virgin draws protest : Shades of Godard’s “Marx and Coca Cola”
• Maya relics found in garbage : All I find is garbage

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Incidents of travel in virtual Mesoamerica

• Don’t look now, but Mexico is collapsing : As a result of drug wars
• Guatemala President to Visit Cuba: Cubans are working for literacy in Guatemala
• The fine art of preparing true Guatemalan coffee : An acquired taste. That I never acquired
• Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: : A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
• Tikin Xic : A simple fish recipe
• Marine conservation in Mexico : Working for a healthy reef
• Guatemala hosts conference on water governance in Latin America : More efforts toward good water

Not cards of the ancient or even modern Maya, but playing cards produced by — of all people — the Soviet state. Among the few sets of cards it produced (the state was the sole supplier of playing cards) was this handsome set.

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More examples at English Russia.

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Virtual travels in Mesoamerica

• A visit to Chiapas : With the NYT Frugal Traveler
• Fiambre : Puro Guatemalteco
• Maya jades to be returned to Mexico : From the Peabody Museum
• Blues And jazz festivals In Mexico : Sweet
• World Bank recommends increased public spending in Guatemala : Just like the U.S., and everywhere
• Portal to Maya hell found in Mexico : It’s okay to visit, but …

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Incidents of virtual travel in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and greater Mesoamerica

• Animal Del Monte Festival in Xela, Guatemala
  
• A call to save Mirador Basin, the cradle of Maya civilization
• An interactive guide to reading Maya heiroglyphs
• Riviera Maya to get its own airport
• Desalojan a invasores del parque natural Yaxhá
• Video report on Aztec palace found in Mexico City

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Incidents of virtual travel . . .

• TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art at the Weatherspoon Art Museum
• Sleeping Lady Of Manzanillo
• Tamayo painting sets Latin American auction record
• 500 troops for border drug crackdown
• Sompopo: The Giant Guatemalan Ant

What’s new in virtual Mesoamerica

• Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico
• Achiote-grilled turkey breast with tomatoes, chiles, and mint
• Xunantunich, ancient Mayan temple city in Belize
• Mexico’s Battle over Oil
• Pilgrims Paddle To Cozumel

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• TICJ may decide Guatemala/Belize sovereignty dispute
• Traditional Guatemalan musical instruments
• Cooking by feel: Latin American ingredients and flavors
• Top 5 Mexican real estate markets
• Algunos escritores guatemaltecos valiosos (1980-2000) | Ronald Flores

MetaMeso

• Around San Cristobal
• Sitios arqueológicos majestuosos para sus visitantes
• Yucatan peninsula on drought alert (link has gone bad)
• Guatemala fights violent reputation for tourists
• La Enchilada

Links of the week

• Guatemala to open army files to probe war crimes
• Mexico City officials to learn Nahuatl
• Costa Rica’s Jade Museum to get new home
• Small Procession in San Pedro Las Huertas
• Guatemalan farmers take 29 policemen hostage

Surfing Mesoamerica

• Satellites spot lost Guatemala Mayan temples
• Mexican hideaway might allow jaguar to maintain a foothold
• Monkeys on fire
• Wildlife in the Yucatan
• Will Mexico ‘Smoke Out’ its Smokers?
• BAM/PFA presents Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia

Question of the day

• Why did this batty page get 10,000 page views yesterday??

A week of travel through virtual Mesoamerica

• Cambios en las monedas
• Valentine’s Day in La Antigua Guatemala
• Mayas work to preserve culture
• Song Recalls Puerto Vallarta
• Mexican Tourism Gets Eco-Boost

A week of travel through virtual Mesoamerica

• Yucatan Living – Yucatan Living Reader’s Choices for 2007
• How to travel well on a weak dollar
• Remembering Andy Palacio
• Ivan Naranjo and Ensamble Aspero
• Print magazines thriving in Mexico

Link Love
Who’s linking here lately

• The Global Tree: Guatemala
• Antigua Daily Photo
  

Rambles through virtual Mesoamerica

• Mexico’s black history
• Mexican Rug Weaving Patterns
• Waiting for Justice in Guatemala
• How to shower your parrot
• Yucatan Chicken with Peach-Avocado Salsa

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• Spanish court accuses Guatemala of sheltering perpetrators of genocide
• Tourist park to open at ancient Maya site of Mirador
• Cuernos (Mexican horn-shaped pastries)
• Mexico: Festival of Toys

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• The Guadalajara Guggenheim
• Mexico City’s enormous free ice rink
• Mexico’s biosphere reserves
• Lydia Mendoza, 1916-2007
• Deporting 21,000 Guatemalans

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• Guatemalan officials dodge genocide extraditions
• Casa Santana, Merida
• The Goat’s Dance
• Casting the dye
• Alfredo Ramos Martinez

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• A young Mexican artist based in Philadelphia
• Homicide in Guatemala
• Radish night
• Teaching with two voices
• Evidence of ancient Maya markets

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• Rivera winning back acclaim from Kahlo
• Anti-Iraq War film wins top prize in Guatemala
• Maya “death vase” discovered
• Vulnerable communities threatened by dam
• Mick Jagger’s Aztec-influenced fertility diet

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• The many faces of Belize
• Who is subcommandante Marcos?
• Ancient Maya stick throwing modernized (in 1935). Now why didn’t this catch on?
• Bistro Cinq, a new Antigua restaurant
• Revaluing Mexican artists

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• The best bed & breakfast in Merida
• Un recuerdo
• Salba, an Aztec grain, may cut diabetes and heart attack risk
• But pulque is losing out to beer
• Guatemala moves to protect women

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• The wisdom of a 95-year-old blogger
• Pre-Maya Yucatan cave paintings discovered
• More discoveries at Ek Balaam
• Touring the colonial churches of Guatemala (Span.)
• Sacred caves in Belize
• Selling kites in Antigua

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• Interview with an expat in Merida
• More on giant kites
• Música en día de muertos (photos)
• English – Yucatec Mayan phrasebook
• A market negotiation (photo)
• Covering the election in Guatemala
• An interview with president Colom
• Colom’s first declarations
• Francisco Goldman reacts to Colom victory

Sifting through a week of digging the internet

• Talking about Mexican-American identity
• Buy Maximon?
• A brief history of chocolate
• Jornada médica internacional benefició a pobladores de Huehuetenango
• The future of publishing in Guatemala