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I hope to return to more regular blogging soon. We might as well start with our regular feature, Photo Wednesday. This image of hammocks against a bright wall comes from CasaDeQueso’s photostream. CasaDeQueso says that the hammocks were for sale at a roadside souvenir shop, near Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

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Photo Wednesday: Colorful hammocks

This image of painted bowls at Chichen Itza comes from saguayo’s photostream.

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Photo Wednesday: painted bowls

• 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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Friday Roundup

This view of Agua Volcano from somewhere near the Parqueo Central in Antigua, Guatemala, is from hexod.us’ photostream.

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Photo Wednesday: Agua Volcano, Antigua, Guatemala

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Tropical storm Arthur batters Belize

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Photo quiz, part 4

Jonathan Dunham was working as a substitute teacher in the Portland, Oregon, public schools when, a couple of years ago, he just started walking. He walked south to Texas, crossing the border at Tamaulipas. He stopped there long enough to do chores on a family farm; when he decided it was time to resume walking, his host family saw him off with a burro to help him with his load.

He named the animal Whothey, a name that was gradually transformed, through the mouths of the Spanish speakers he met along the way, into Judas. Together the pair continued walking through Central America and into Colombia and Venezuela. Everywhere the donkey has proved an icebreaker, and the travelers have sparked interest wherever they have gone. “Judas is not just any donkey,” a newspaper reporter enthused in Barranquilla, and “Jon is a well-mannered and shy biochemist.”

To Mr. Dunham Mexico and Venuzuela seemed the most generous countries he has journeyed through.

Read the full story at Mexico Premiere.

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Photo by Texas to Mexico (model’s name unknown)

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Travels with Judas

The artists included range from José Guadalupe Posada, influential figure in modern Mexican printmaking, to Leopoldo Méndez, Pablo O´Higgins, and Alfredo Zalce, all members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic Art Workshop or T.G.P.). Together, these artists documented the climate of this period, which saw the Mexican Revolution of 1910, World War I, and World War II.

The T.G.P. had a particularly significant impact on the lives of Mexican citizens and, thus, attracted politically engaged artists from around the world, including Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen from Chicago. Kahn and Coen amassed the works seen here while collaborating with the T.G.P. in Mexico during the 1940s. In 2006, Mr. Frank Ribelin acquired the prints and generously donated them to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Shown is What May Happen (Lo que puede venir), 1945, by Leopoldo Méndez
The MFAH, gift of Frank Ribelin.

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Gráficas Políticas: Mexican Prints, 1900—1950