Check out the new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mexicopodcast The 1908 article about Porfirio Diaz can be found here: http://www.emersonkent.com/historic_documents/creelman_interview_1908_pdf.htm

Porfirio Diaz - 3

Jun 27th, 2018 23m 44s

1994

Jan 3rd, 2020 52m 15s

In this episode we examine the "1994" docu-series on Netflix. Check out https://www.digitalnomad.mx/spanish before January 7, 2020 if you want to join the How to Master Spanish course and get 41 billion bonuses for a price so low that I would g

Echoes of the Maya - Part 4

Oct 28th, 2019 38m 5s

Sources and links This disclaimer is unnecessary, but I’m gonna include it anyway: We all know how the internet works. Any of the links included here might disappear from existence at any time. The Wayback Machine is usually pretty good at arch

Echoes of the Maya - Part 3

Oct 21st, 2019 25m 52s

Echoes of the Maya - Part 2

Oct 14th, 2019 38m 31s

Echoes of the Maya: Part 1

Jun 29th, 2019 31m 36s

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TN7ZTXR/ Two friends sailed to Central America in 1839 looking for evidence of a lost civilization. Their journey took them through countries torn by civil war and controlled by bandits and reb

Malinche

Feb 14th, 2019 21m 39s

Wanna learn Spanish? (Or English?) Subscribe to my email list for a free guide that will show you the path. It's here: https://www.digitalnomad.mx/ If you're not interested in that, but you want to support the podcast, the best way is to buy

Virgen de Guadalupe

Jan 19th, 2019 23m 35s

Read Diane Douglas' article here: https://medium.com/a-remarkable-education/why-the-virgin-of-guadalupe-lives-in-every-heart-in-mexico-442e72aaea88 She wrote a series of great articles on the same website. Check them out if you have time. Ot

Narcos: Mexico - 3

Dec 3rd, 2018 13m 18s

Narcos: Mexico - 1

Nov 29th, 2018 20m 43s

Chapultepec Castle

Jul 19th, 2018 37m 41s

Read the article here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/chapultepec-the-mexican-castle-that-drove-a-belgian-princess-to-madness-and-an-austrian-archduke-to-the-firing-squad

The Pronunciation Problem

Jul 11th, 2018 12m 16s

The article can be found here: https://medium.com/@ibiworld/how-to-pronounce-el-paso-the-fine-art-of-pronouncing-foreign-words-e69bc8592a98 Video mentioned: https://www.facebook.com/perolike/videos/1822194667867916/

Porfirio Diaz - Part 2

Jun 20th, 2018 38m 36s

Porfirio Diaz

Jun 13th, 2018 1h

Now Means Later

Jun 6th, 2018 15m 53s

The resources for this episode are: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170725-the-confusing-way-mexicans-tell-time https://www.mexperience.com/pride-and-prejudice-the-naco-versus-the-fresa/ I also quoted from the book "The Life and Time

Mexican Double Entendres

May 31st, 2018 8m 29s

And go check out the article from today's episode: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180527-the-mexican-art-of-double-entendre

Why Nations Fail 2

Aug 15th, 2017 22m 43s

Spain and England colonized the Americas in very different ways. That led to different cultural values, which led to different constitutions. Mexico has had to update and rewrite the Constitution several times since the first one in 1824, becau

Why Nations Fail 1

Aug 7th, 2017 16m 25s

Intro Before we get into today’s episode, I want to take a second to plug a pretty cool thing I made that can really help out anybody who has learned a little bit of Spanish and wants to go much deeper. It is the Mexican Spanish Master course.

Labyrinth of Solitude 2

Jul 30th, 2017 15m 15s

This is part 2 in a 2-part series on Labyrinth of Solitude. In this episode I’m going to perform a quick medical diagnosis of one of the best books written about Mexico. And also one of the most self-indulgent and cringeworthy books ever writte

Mexico and the United States: Labyrinth of Solitude 1

Jul 24th, 2017 14m 10s

This is part 1 in a 2-part series on The Labyrinth of Solitude. The differences between the U.S. and Mexico go back long before Europe discovered North America. In what is now Mexico, there were massive and complex civilizations. Farther north

The Death of Cuauhtemoc

Jul 3rd, 2017 7m 47s

Cuauhtemoc was the last Aztec emperor. I’ve captured one sliver of his life in my series Fall of Tenochtitlan, but obviously he was around before and after the Spanish invaded and destroyed his city. By the way, I’m not making any moral judgeme

Revolution 1.4

Jun 28th, 2017 14m 16s

Revolution 1.4 The previous episode ended with Pancho Villa breaking out of prison. This episode has another prison break. This is the third or fourth or fifth high-profile prison break we’ve seen in this series. That’s got to be some kind of