Mexico City on Vice

  • A Neo-Aztec in Mexico City

    In Mexico City, Aztec culture is not just scattered ruins, jade masks hung in museums, or 'concheros' dressed in colorful feathers dancing and offering to pose with tourists in the city’s main plaza. The “race of bronze” can still be seen in the faces and bodies of a large portion of the local population. Full story

    2013 Apr 19 Kurt Hollander Travel
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  • Mexico City: Was the Pemex Blast a Bomb or an Accident?

    The victims of the explosion at the Pemex headquarters on January 31 were mostly regular, everyday office workers. The dead were secretaries, maintenance guys, accountants. One of those killed was a nine-year-old girl named Dafne Sherlyn Martinez who reportedly went to visit her Full story

    2013 Mar 5 Daniel Hernandez News
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  • Munchies

    Enrique Olvera

    Enrique is not afraid to mix ants with mayonnaise and coffee and put it all on ears of baby corn. The 14-course tasting menu at his restaurant, Pujol, is considered by many to be the finest in Mexico. Full story

    2013 Jan 24 VICE Mexico Travel
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  • Displaced Verse

    A Controversial Syrian Poet Finds Asylum in Mexico City

    In Syria, controversial poet Mohamad Alaaedin Abdul Moulawas earned a reputation as a sort of Arabic Henry Miller. Mohamad now lives in Mexico. He fled Syria just before the Free Syrian Army and Assad’s forces decided to turn his country into a pile of rubble. Full story

    2012 Nov 30 Bernardo Loyola Stuff
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  • Shot By Kern

    Photos by Richard Kern

    Richard Kern photographed Argentine-born Ana Lucia at her home in Mexico City. She told us that in middle school her nickname was "The Sweet Little Ass From Seventh Grade."
    If you go to VBS.TV/shotbykern right now, you can watch her get naked and Full story

    2009 Jan 1 Richard Kern
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  • An Interview with a Mexican Coke Dealer

    Julián is a coke dealer. He’s 44. He’s been working Mexico City for two decades. He agreed to take us on a ride-along as he worked. The phone never stopped ringing, not for a minute. Full story

    2013 May 6 Emmanuel Cobos, Marco Tulio Valencia Stuff
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  • A Mexican In... Vienna

    Vice: Why did you decide to move to Vienna? Full story

    2008 Jun 1 Kemi Fatoba; Photo: Kurt Prinz Travel
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  • El Hombre Arana

    Ryan McGinley Gets Hoodwinked at the Mexico City Zoo

    In the fall of 2006 I was on the Morrissey Tour. I had been touring since March ‘06, traveling all over the world photographing his concerts and fans. Full story

    2008 Jun 1 Ryan McGinley Travel
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