La Pascualita – The Corpse Bride of Mexico
La Pascualita or Little Pascuala is a bridal mannequin that has “lived” in a store window in Chihuahua, Mexico for the past 75 years. That is quite a long time for a bridal gown shop to retain a mannequin, but then the dummy has a rather strange history behind it. According to an urban legend, […]
Maquech Beetles – Mexico’s Controversial Living Breathing Jewelry
The Maquech Beetle can make any nature lover or animal rights activist scream in horror. Entomophobics (creepy-crawly-haters) would probably run as far away as possible from this kind of jewelry, and for good reason, as every Maquech is actually a live bejeweled insect. As hard as it may be to even conceive wearing bugs as […]
Dwarf Bullfighters – Human Exploitation Meets Animal Cruelty
It sounds cruel when I write about it, but watching a bunch of dwarfs running around with calves that match their size could invoke quite a bit of laughter. There’s nothing cute about this however, the fighting is quite real and dangerous. Thankfully, the calves and the men are usually unharmed. Wondering what I’m talking […]
Cholombians – Mexican Kids with Crazy Hair-Styles
Picture this hairstyle – the back of the head shaved, with a rat tail left at the bottom. The hair at the top of the head cut short and spiky, always trimmed. Long emo bangs covering the forehead. The highlight of it all, long sideburns that start at the top of the head going all […]
Mexican Woman Has Live Grenade Lodged in Her Face
Karla Flores, a 32-year-old street vendor from Culiacán, Mexico can consider herself after she survived being shot in the face with a live grenade. On August 6, 2011 Mexico’s “Miracle Woman”, as she’s come to be known, was selling seafood on the street when all of a sudden she heard an explosion. As she turned around […]
Last Two Speakers of a Dying Language Refuse to Talk to Each Other
Ayapaneco is a language that has been spoken in Mexico for hundreds of years, but it’s now in danger of becoming extinct as the last two speakers refuse to to talk to each other. After surviving the Spanish invasion, numerous natural disasters and famine, the old language of Ayapaneco could soon become only a memory […]
Guarachero Boots – When Long Is Simply Too Long
They’ve only been around for about a year, but these ridiculously long Mexican pointy boots have already become a major fashion trend at dance clubs and rodeo dance floors around northern Mexico. The guys at Vice heard about the unusual footwear and journeyed to the Mexican city of Matehuala, in the northern state of San […]
The House of the Beautiful Flowers – A Retirement Home for Prostitutes
Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers) is a retirement home for prostitutes, established in Mexico City’s Tepito neighborhood, that got it’s name from the Aztec goddess of love and women. The center was founded in 2007 by a former prostitute, Carmen Munoz, impressed by the old sex workers she saw sleeping in the […]
Scouts Create Giant Scout Badge in Mexico City
Hundreds of young Mexican scouts gathered in the main square of Mexico City, on Sunday, August 30, to create what may be the largest scout badge in the world. The outline of the scout lily was traced beforehand, and the scouts had to fill the entire design with over 1.65 million differently colored used metal […]
Underwater Museum Starts to Take Shape
Announced for over a year now, the world’s largest underwater museum recently received its first exhibits. The seabed of the Mexican Caribbean is now host to a series of life-size sculptures on display in Mexico’s Underwater Museum. But they are just a few of the 400 statues that will be lowered down to the bottom […]