NY Times Travels to Michoacán
Many times when writing on this blog I feel that the worst of Mexico comes out. For that reason, today’s post reveals some of the best Mexico has to offer in a one of the provinces stricken by the drug war - Michoacán. This New York Times article exposes an interesting trip to Michoacán, leaving the writer to argue that it is an “undiscovered Oaxaca.” “The only ambush,” writes Gisela Williams, “was the orange-and-black clouds of monarch butterflies, fluttering above our windshield.”
July 24th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Why does an otherwise interesting and informative article in the New York Times about Michoacán’s crafts have to be so snarky? It’s sort of like seeing a travel piece touting New York City’s Greenwich Village which drops a line about Joel Steinberg and Hedda Nussbaum or mandating that there be at least a couple of mentions about muggings in each piece about Central Park.
http://staringatstrangers.typepad.com/staring_at_strangers/2008/07/when-the-praise.html