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El Zocalo is the main square in Mexico City, home of celebrations and protests.
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Buildings being decorated for Christmas. The custom of starting Christmas before Thanksgiving seems to have spread across the world, just like Halloween. |
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We were accosted several times during the week by students doing one project or another, usually asking us why we were visiting. Sometimes they had notebooks and sometimes video cameras. Sinice they were doing assignments, they weren't particularly interested in any answers, just to say they had done it. Still, it's an interesting custom. Can you imagine what would happen if a school in America assigned students to talk to strangers? How many lawsuits is that? |
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It was cold for Mexico the week we were there. It made the headlines. People died. |
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A huge flag flies in the square. You can play with the color all you want in Photoshop, but there isn't a preset camera lighting model that will make the sky in Mexico City truly blue. |
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Vendors line the streets all around the square. This one offered many Che t-shirts. |
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Vendor kids. |
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A stand supporting Lopez Obrador, who, like Gore, narrowly lost the last election. The Cathedral looms in the background. |
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A table in a large tent on the main square had books for sale. |
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The Palacio Nacional. |
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Inside the Palacio Nacional are several large murals painted by Diego Rivera. Our guide pointed out many events in Mexican history illustrated in these murals. |
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The Mexican government does not exactly adhere to any revolutionary ideals involving the organization of society; but try to imagine even a graffito in a tourist restroom anywhere in the US government redoubts that refers to historical aspirations of workers and peasants... |
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... or the actual process of religious conversion ... |
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... or Rockefellers consorting with hos, nappy-haired or not ... |
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... or workers reading "Capital". |
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Along the second-floor courtyard are eight more Rivera murals illustrating Mexico in pre-Hispanic times. |
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The Stone Age must have been very scientific in its own way. People all over the world came to the same conclusions independently about how to do things — in this case, dyeing cloth ... |
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... and they still do this. |
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A free metal-rock concert on the square the last night we were there. Isn't "Propecia" a hair-loss remedy? |
