From Mexico, Nancy Huynh blogs on what she’s learned about working as a global journalist from assisting me on our Mexico reporting trip. Don’t let anyone tell you this work is glamouous, says Nancy! –Mary Stucky
Mexico
January 24th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
Being a great journalist is not enough BY PAULINA YANEZ NAVARRO
Round Earth is in Mexico reporting for our U.S. outlets with the assistance of two NextGen journalists. I asked these young journalists to blog about what they’re learning during this reporting trip. Here’s Paulina Yanez Navarro (left with me interviewing in Mexico City).
Paulina hails from Santiago, Chile and is studying international journalism at Hamline University in the U.S., one of the young journalists mentored by Round Earth. What Paulina has to say here may seem simple, but it captures the essence of what we do as journalists. — Mary Stucky
January 16th, 2010 | By Mary Stucky
Introducing Paulina and Nancy
Two Next Generation journalists Paulina Yanez Navarro and Nancy Huynh , will be in Mexico with Mary Stucky this month reporting for The World, the World Vision Report and other outlets, part of Round Earth’s project to mentor and help train the next generation of global journalists.
Paulina is from Santiago, Chile and Nancy (left) is from St Paul, Minnesota. Both are students in Hamline University’s groundbreaking international journalism program.
January 10th, 2009 | By Mary Stucky
Chocolate, Gift of the Gods
School girls eating Dona Maria’s hot chocolate. | Photo by Ginny Grossman
Mexico is the birthplace of chocolate. The story goes that the Mayan god Quetzalcoatl presented his people with a gift from the garden of paradise: the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. Nowhere in Mexico is chocolate held in higher esteem than in Oaxaca – it is said that every man woman and child in this city in southern Mexico consumes chocolate at least once a day.
Mary Stucky went to Pilar Cabrera, a native of Oaxaca and a well-known chef, to learn the secrets of making a special kind of Mexican hot chocolate known as chocolate atole. They start on a busy street in the center of town – where for blocks around the air is rich with the smell of chocolate.
May 6th, 2008 | By Mary Stucky
Oaxaca’s Weavers Keep Culture Thriving
Arnulfo Mendoza weaving a rug. | Photo ©Linda Brooks
Twenty years ago, a young Canadian backpacker named Mary Jane Gagnier stumbled upon a tiny village in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca, fell in love with a local weaver — and never left.
To this day Mary Jane and Arnulfo Mendoza live in Teotitlan del Valle. That’s pretty typical in this village nestled in the dry foothills of the Sierra Juarez, where people stay put — unlike many in Mexico, who are forced by poverty to emigrate.
July 1st, 2006 | By Round Earth Media
Maria’s Story
Maria going to school. | Photo: Mary Stucky
As many as 85,000 illegal immigrants make Minnesota their home, including many who have crossed the border into the U.S. from Mexico. This is the story of one of them. We’ll call her Maria even though that’s not her real name. : Minnesota Public Radio News has agreed to protect her identity.
Maria, 20, came to Minnesota illegally five years ago. She lives with her family in the Twin Cities. She is watching closely as Congress debates whether to crack down on illegal immigrants, or give them opportunities to stay in this country
[The following is a transcript of Mary Stucky’s radio report.]
Mary Stucky: For Maria, home is the basement of a modest ranch-style house in a Twin Cities suburb.
Maria: “Home is pretty much where my family is. Because wherever they are, there is my home.”
Mary Stucky: And this family spends most of its free time at home. They enjoy being together, are tired from working, and don’t feel like exploring a city they don’t really understand.
They also stay home because they’re afraid — afraid of being stopped by the police, afraid their illegal status will be discovered.
March 25th, 2006 | By Round Earth Media
Mexican Vanilla
We go to Mexico for vanilla – the most labor intensive food in the hemisphere.
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June 1st, 2005 | By Round Earth Media
Here Where We Live: Globalization and the Environment in Mexico
A five part series of stories exploring how the free trade agreement Mexico signed with its rich northern neighbors has reverberated across rural Mexico.
Bioprospecting in Chiapas
From the troubled state of Chiapas where, in a clash of cultures, local opposition has put a stop to international “bioprospecting” for cures based on medicinal plants.
Listen to Bioprospecting in Chiapas
Roads on The Isthmus
From the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where free-trade backers are working to build roads that will open southern Mexico to the rest of the world, against the opposition of some Mexican peasants.
Listen to Roads on The Isthmus
Corn in Oaxaca
From Oaxaca, where farmers have appealed to an international commission created by NAFTA for help in the fight against cheap US corn imports, one of the driving forces behind the migration of Mexicans to the United States.
Timber in Durango
A forest cooperative near Durango selling sustainably-grown wood on the international market.
Mangroves on the Yucatan
Environmental groups are fighting to save mangrove swamps from development aimed at US tourists.
This series was produced for the Public Radio Collaboration on Globalization.
May 11th, 2002 | By Round Earth Media
Mole in Oaxaca
Susana Trilling teaching a cooking class. | Photo courtesy Susana Trilling
Writer Susana Trilling, author of Seasons of My Heart: A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, takes us to Mexico and into the kitchen of the woman who taught her to cook. Her recipe for Mole Coloradito Oaxaqueño is extraordinary.
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