Thursday

sonora

i´m reading a book about narcocorridos- a modern form of norteño country music. the song are often commissioned by drug dealers and heads of cartels to document their crimes and triumphs. its fascinating especially as the current power struggles of these cartels are on the front page of the newspaper every morning. i have never followed these crimes and know little apart from the movie blow and my recent trip to marijuana growing county michoacan.

so that´s what i´m thinking about and i see this article about the efforts of sonora´s tourist office:Mexico: Rocky Point is safe, developing the article sites the millions of dollars in private investments pouring into the region. i´ve also read about that- money laundering!

whenever i think of sonora, i think of the writer who said he quickly learned that while at school social events in d.f. he could sit next to the prettiest girl in the room. when her boyfriend angrily approached the writer would just say i´m from sonora and the bofriend would disappear- not wanting conflict with a sonoran.




other tidbit: wi-fi and wi-max for mexico´s future

pulque program

i just caught the end of a documentary about the oldest traditional mexican drink: pulque. it was on canal 11´s program mexico desconocido, produced by the magazine of the same name.

2 pulquerias famosas were mentioned la hija del apache on avenida cuahtemoc in la roma and la xochitl

El maguey una viña del pasado

Del Pulque al Vino Tinto, sin Olvidar la Taberna

la famosa pulquería "La hija del apache"

outside of mexico city
pulque hacienda in hidalgo

more pulque tourism

el rancho San Bartolomé del Monte




p.s. a beautiful nopales page