Quotes About Mexico

Muchos se preguntan si ha desaparecido la izquierda en México. Me parece que la izquierda mexicana ha quedado sepultada bajo el peso de sus torpezas y sus incoherencias.

En México están volviendo a soplar con fuerza los viejos vientos del nacionalismo autoritario.

Otro sector de la izquierda ha quedado aplastado por el abrumador conservadurismo de López Obrador. Desde hace años he explicado que este líder populista es un conservador que no tiene nada de izquierda. Y hoy se ha vuelto francamente reaccionario. En su partido ya casi no se perciben los signos vitales de la izquierda. Predomina allí un espíritu restaurador que sueña con volver al priismo de los años sesenta y setenta.

La amenaza que significaba López Obrador era clara: quería dar un salto hacia atrás, para llegar a los bellos tiempos de un pasado imaginario. Evidentemente, un retorno al México de los años sesenta y setenta era algo imposible, pero del intento de restauración podía surgir un extraño esperpento, un adefesio político. Eso es exactamente lo que sucedió.

El previsible fracaso de la restauración puede tener consecuencias colaterales y dejar al país en una condición muy difícil. Las instituciones democráticas podrían quedar muy dañadas y con ello México quedaría sin los contrapesos necesarios para asegurar la libertad política.

Mexico—and I'm sure identifying

Chi ha respirato la polvere delle strade del Messico, non troverà più pace in nessun altro paese.

And here indeed it was again, the temptation, the cowardly, the future-corruptive serpent: trample on it stupid fool. Be Mexico.

Oaxaca... The word was like a breaking heart, a sudden peal of stifled bells in a gale, the last syllables of one dying of thirst in the desert.

This ought to be about the place, if Alcapancingo's over there, Hugh said, where Bernal Díaz and his Tlaxcalans got across to beat up Quauhnahuac. Superb name for a dance band: Bernal Díaz and his Tlaxcalans...Or didn't you get around to Prescott at the University of Hawaii?

America has already taken in more than one-quarter of Mexico's entire population, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis of census data.

Oye, gordito, ¿eres el pintor más grande de México o del mundo? —Del mundo, Lupe, del mundo. —¿Hasta de Chinajapón? —Hasta de China y de Japón. —¿Chinajapón no es un solo país? —No. —¿Entonces por qué cantan eso de «chino, chino, japonés, come caca y no me des»? —¿Es eso lo que sabes de geografía, Lupe?

Perhaps the most bizarre couvade ritual I've come across is one that enabled dads-to-be to literally share the pain of childbirth. Apparently, the Huichol people of Mexico used to position the dad in a tree or on the roof above his laboring wife. Ropes were tied around his testicles and with each contraction she could yank on the ropes and give her husband a taste of what she was going through. Seems a little much to me, but I'm sure there are plenty of women who would disagree.

Brazil, like Mexico, has some of the best fighters. There's quantity and quality.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It's muy tranquilo, as they say there.

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

All the supporters who support me in Mexico now support the Wolves.

I wanted to make 'Mexicana Hermosa.' It's a love song, but it isn't. It's more like a song as if Mexico was the Maria, the beautiful woman that I love.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.