Duncan Tucker
Ultra-Premium Tequila Is Winning Over Wealthy Americans
With competition intensifying, leading tequila brands are turning to increasingly lavish, experimental creations and even high-tech collaborations in a bid to stand out.
End Your Suffering at Guadalajara’s Best Mezcal Bar
Pare de Sufrir—or "end your suffering"—offers 70 brands of mezcal from producers around Mexico, including a special variety made with chicken breast.
This Mexican Brewery Tricked Donald Trump Supporters into Funding a Fiesta
Mexican craft brewery Cucapá conned Trump supporters into buying T-shirts proclaiming “I Support Donald"—but the message transforms into something very different when exposed to warm temperatures.
The Best Way to Drink Tequila is Out of a Casserole Dish
Forget margaritas, tequila slammers, or the frankly terrible tequila sunrise. There’s a much more fun and refreshing way to enjoy Mexico’s most loved spirit: out of a clay casserole dish.
Authorities confirm one of El Chapo's sons has been kidnapped
The event has sparked fears of a violent backlash in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta where Jesús Alfredo Guzmán was abducted from a swanky restaurant with five other men.
Cartel gunmen abducted 12 people from a high-end restaurant in Mexico
Officials said the gunmen appeared to be targeting members of a rival group when they rounded up between 10 and 12 men from a gourmet restaurant in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta early on Monday.
Pollution turned this Mexican river into a toxic hell
Locals claim industrial pollution of the Santiago River in western Mexico has killed 628 locals people in the last eight years, including 72 in 2015 — the worst year to date.
Armed vigilantes are taking the law into their own hands in Mexico’s second biggest city
With the police providing little or no protection against violent crime, inhabitants of Guadalajara's forgotten outskirts have begun forming their own self-defense squads.
How Jesús 'Tecatito' Corona Became Mexico's Most Exciting Young Soccer Star
Tecatito, who scored a spectacular tying goal late in Mexico's Copa America Centenario game with Venezula, also may be El Tri's greatest hope as the tournament progresses.
Everyone Drinks Vampire Cocktails Out of Plastic Bags in This Tiny Mexican Town
In San Luis Soyatlán, you'll spot dozens of people clutching plastic bags full of tequila-spiked crimson liquid.
Don't Try to Order a Cocktail at This Old-School Guadalajara Cantina
La Fuente does not have a website or an Instagram account, and it serves little more than beer, tequila, and pig's trotters to a diverse array of elderly regulars, politicians, writers, and local celebrities.
Guadalajara’s Oldest Cantina Changed Hands 112 Years Ago in a Game Of Poker
Possibly haunted and rumored to have once put cat meat in its birria, Guadalajara's La Iberia has long and bizarre history as the oldest cantina in the area.