Alive in Mexico

About this original series

Alive in Mexico, sister show to Alive in Baghdad, will bring you a plethora of news about life in Mexico. We will cover everything from street battles in southern Mexico to Mexican culture and history. Tune in each week to learn something new about Mexico

Episodes of Alive in Mexico

    • Play Mexico's New Tolerance Zone - Part 2 - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      Mexico's New Tolerance Zone - Part 2

      La zona de tolerancia que el gobernador de Tlaxcala, Enrique Ruiz Peña propone, ha abierto la discusión alrededor del trabajo sexual y la prostitución.Las trabajadoras sexuales hablan acerca de la discriminación ante su trabajo y de cómo por dedicarse a el son criticadas y muchas veces no son respetadas y son abusadas por la policía, los clientes y algunas veces incluso por sus familias, lo cual baja su autoestima permitiendo este tipo de violencia, pero al organizarse, y al tener apoyo psicol...

      • Release date
        Dec 1, 2007
      • Runtime
        08:36
    • Play A New Red Light District for Mexico? - Part 1 - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      A New Red Light District for Mexico? - Part 1

      On October 5, the Forum of Analysis and Discussion about the Red Light District took place in the city of Apizaco, Tlaxcala. There sex workers, as well as members of human rights and labor organizations, in the fight against Sida, reaffirmed their stance against the government proposal to create a Red Light District in which prostitution would be legal. The said proposal, besides lacking public support, does not offer any opportunity to sex workers, but rather forces them to work for businessm...

      • Release date
        Oct 26, 2007
      • Runtime
        04:54
    • Play Pasta de Conchos: Explotacion e inseguridad - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      Pasta de Conchos: Explotacion e inseguridad

      Las Familias de los mineros de Santa Rosita, Coahuila; tienen un plantón en el DF donde demandan a la Secretaria del Trabajo, la búsqueda y rescate de los cuerpos de los 63 mineros que quedaron atrapados después de una explosión dentro de una mina el 19 de febrero de 2006, conocida como la Mina Pasta de Conchos.Las familiares argumentan que los dueños de la empresa Industrial Minera México no cumplieron con las normas de seguridad en la mina y mantienen un entramado de corrupción con las autor...

      • Release date
        Oct 7, 2007
      • Runtime
        07:47
    • Play Zapatistas Discuss Growing and Distributing Coffee - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      Zapatistas Discuss Growing and Distributing Coffee

      [Editor’s note: English coming soon.]El café Tatawelo es la marca que comercializan comunidades autonomas zapatistas de Chiapas. Los indígenas mayas organizados en las Juntas de Buen Gobierno han decidido comercializar sus productos sin el intermediario que comúnmente compra a muy bajo costo lo que han sembrado los indígenas. Este café se puede conseguir en cafeterias de Chiapas y el Distrito Federal en Mexico. Desde hace un par de años han decidido gestionar que su café sea reconocido a nivel...

      • Release date
        Sep 28, 2007
      • Runtime
        05:58
    • Play A School for Mexica [Aztec] Dance and Culture - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      A School for Mexica [Aztec] Dance and Culture

      Mexican culture was born in 1325, 682 years ago, in what now is the center of the Federal District [Mexico City], where the city Tenochtitlan rose. This culture was oppressed with the arrival of the Spanish colonizers in 1521, subdued and decimated by new European illnesses, military, and religious contrast.In the Colony there were prohibitions against languages, constumes, dances, their form of dressing. Nonetheless the indigenous groups survived with these traditions in a clandestine manner....

      • Release date
        Sep 22, 2007
      • Runtime
        06:09
    • Play The Annual LGBT Pride March in Mexico City - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      The Annual LGBT Pride March in Mexico City

      For 29 years there has been a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered(LGBT) march in Mexico’s capital city. This year the march’s theme was the growing problem of discrimination against LGBT people for their sexual preferences.This march grows each year, not only in the number of people but also in the infrastructure that they use, which includes dozens of mobile scenes where they exhibit their outfits.Various cities in the country have similar marches where, in a type of carnival, the LGBT g...

      • Release date
        Sep 14, 2007
      • Runtime
        05:57
    • Play The Struggles of Mexico's Real del Monte Miners - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      The Struggles of Mexico's Real del Monte Miners

      The town of Real del Monte is in the state of Hidalgo, very close to Mexico’s capital, Mexico City. For more than 500 years mines for gold, silver and other minerals have operated there. Now they are all closed.The former miners have organized to reclaim their rights for a dignified retirement and medical care. The work in the mines caused many illnesses, and only a few miners have medical insurance or benefits.This town has a long history, including the first strike in America in 1766. This t...

      • Release date
        Sep 8, 2007
      • Runtime
        05:53
    • Play Zapatistas Practice Herbal Medicine - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      Zapatistas Practice Herbal Medicine

      In Chiapas, medical aid and assistance is difficult to find. As we reported some months back, indigenous Mayan “Health Promoters” in Chiapas have begun teaching their communities about basic nutrition and hygeine, as well as providing some medical services.The have also begun renewing the traditions of their ancestors by using herbal alternatives to treat medical problems dealt with pharmaceutically in places where resources are more available. Oventic, where our correspondent travelled to bri...

      • Release date
        Aug 31, 2007
      • Runtime
        05:09
    • Play The Other Campaign Visits Mexico City - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      The Other Campaign Visits Mexico City

      The Other Compaign is a political initiative that promotes the EZLN in order to coordinate the people’s struggles throughout the entire country. This organizational proposal began on January 1st of 2006 with the tour of Sub Commander Marcos appointed as Delegate Zero to promote the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona, a document that raises its political proposal at a national level.The tour was suspended on May 3rd of 2006 due to the repression of the town of Anteco, which is part...

      • Release date
        Aug 24, 2007
      • Runtime
        05:19
    • Play ISSSTE: Social Security in Mexico - Alive in Mexico on Blip Alive in Mexico episodes on Blip

      ISSSTE: Social Security in Mexico

      The ISSSTE (Institute of Social Security Serving the Workers of the State) is one of the country’s two largest and most important public Health and Social Security systems, in charge of hospitals, sports and vacation centers, provisions centers, pharmacies, childcare facilities, and a long list of infrastructure that, together with IMSS (Mexican Institute of Social Security), attends to the majority of workers with social security in the entire country - In the case of ISSSTE, to workers servi...

      • Release date
        Aug 17, 2007
      • Runtime
        06:01
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