Small Food Businesses as a Way Up in Mexico

Now let’s go up the social scale a bit and return to food. Every Monday the local paper AM runs a section called Valor Agregado (Added Value) about local León…

Read more

More on Getting out of Poverty in Mexico

I’d like to expand a bit on Mexico Cooks (a quite gorgeous and informative blog by the way) comment on microloans and on the Mexican poor in general which she…

Read more

Escaping Rural Poverty

Walking 12 miles to sell a few bundles of firewood cut from the diminishing acres of woodland. Two or three weeks ago, readers sent in some fascinating reflections on Mexico’s…

Read more