PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico — Hurricane Agatha, the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in May in the eastern Pacific, swept ashore on a stretch of tourist beaches and fishing towns Monday, then weakened moving inland over the mountains of southern Mexico. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Agatha was expected to dissipate overnight, but warned that the system’s heavy …
On June 23, 2020, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, not far from the coastal town of Zipolite where I had taken up accidental residence at the start of the pandemic in March. I spent the next several hours sitting petrified on his mother’s patio while the family laughed at every …
Last year, the pandemic put a stop to my itinerant life, perhaps for the better. While I had been darting around the planet thanks in large part to a passport provided by the United States, a homeland I despised, the less privileged had to contend with fanatically militarised borders – especially the US ones. These delineate territory controlled by rival …
