Patzcuaro, Mexico News

Does anyone have recent updates on restaurants here? I haven't been that way in quite a while and things can change.

The cathedral was wired with fireworks and a song about the beauty of this central Mexico city was blaring from the loudspeakers.

The Day of the Dead festival is one of Mexico s cultural highlights, when for once cemeteries are bursting with life By Jo Tuckman THE GUARDIAN, MEXICO CITY Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, Page 16 A melancholy man lovingly decorates the grave of his dead wife with marigold petals and prepares for an all-night vigil.

You know how some people become attached to a certain dish? They try it somewhere once and then want to go back to eat it again and again, or they make it at home repeatedly in an until-death-do-us-part kind of vow? Well, I am one of those people, and I have made that vow with quite a few dishes from the Mexican state of Michoacan.

Are you a cultural festival junkie? Treasures abound in Mexico and in your nearby Mexican neighborhood.

Halloween has been usurped, turned into today's constant carnival of Goths and vampires, with zombie movies and games of the supernatural everywhere.

Thousands of miles away, on the southwestern edge of Lake Patzcuaro in Mexico, about 50 families are hoping the U.S. economy quickly improves.

As we pass through the tiny Indian villages winding our way from Zitacuaro to Morelia, we notice small cans capturing sap from the pine trees, small fires smoldering in adobe homes, dogs, chickens, Purepecha women dressed in traditional white dresses with purple flowered blouses, infants strapped to their backs with brightly colored serapes.

Josie Vasilovich captures the daybreak. Photo courtesy of Josie Vasilovich If you would like to purchase a photo please call 209-223-1767 Virgalee Brooks snaps a photo of the Kennedy Mine Headframe.

A powerful Mexican drug cartel has unleashed a killing spree against the authorities in a challenge to the leadership of the President in his home state.

Pale green reeds dive beneath rays of yellow fiber as Santiago Marcelino Morales weaves them into a basket The courses of chuspata , harvested from nearby Lake Patzcuaro, zigzag in eager arpeggios toward the top of the container.

It took six months of intelligence work for the police to corner a man suspected of being one of western Mexico 's top drug bosses.

Gunmen boldly attacked federal forces across the western state of Michoacan on Saturday, killing five federal agents and two soldiers after the capture of a suspected drug cartel operative.

Mexico, Jun 1 The Mexican Army was involved in a clash with organized crime while patrolling Michoacan state, sources reported in this capital.

Reporting from Patzcuaro, Mexico -- There are few places in Mexico that better illustrate the way traffickers have corrupted the political system from its very foundation than Michoacan, the home state of President Felipe Calderon.

Posted by Stephanie Bruno, Contributing writer, The Times-Picayune May 23, 2009 4:00PM Categories: Personal Space Photos by Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune The faux-finished walls in Robyn Halvorsen's bedroom were created by Tom Ashcroft, an artist in the movie industry.