Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Mexico City, Mexico

Public water fountains at the Monument to the Revolution in downtown Mexico City are a source of relaxation and refreshment amid high temperatures. The monument’s fountains shoot water directly from the ground, allowing visitors to walk and play in the fountains.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Fernanda Sánchez, 18, and Luis Sánchez, 18, prepare “tlayudas,” a typical dish from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, made with large tortillas. Sánchez prepared hers with beans, cabbage, cheese and meat, during the second Feria Consume Local in Mexico City’s main square. The annual fair was created to promote and sell local food and artisanal products.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Omar Álvarez, 19, waters plants that adorn a median on a road in the Benito Juárez delegation in central Mexico City. The delegation contracts the tanker truck to water plants in the area, says Álvarez.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

Víctor Hugo Martínez, 19, loads 20- to 25-kilogram (44- to 55-pound) sacks of plastic bottles onto a truck at a recycling center in the Xochimilco delegation of southern Mexico City. The bottles will be transported to the suburb of Ixtapaluca, where they will be processed and recycled.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Isauro Vidal (left) dances to drum and flute music on the patio of the Intercultural University of Chiapas (Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas) in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, during the Sexual Diversity Fair (Feria de la Diversidad Sexual). The documentary “Las Chuntá,” a film about the men who dress as women once a year for Chiapa de Corzo’s Grand Festival (Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo), was shown during the event. Chiapa de Corzo is a city in Chiapas state.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

At art education workshops at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unidad de Vinculación Artística del Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco) in Mexico City, Oscar Millán Arrieta plays during a monthly “fandango,” a popular singing, dancing and peaceful coexistence festival that originated in the state of Veracruz. At the center, Millán Arrieta teaches workshops on “son jarocho,” or traditional music from Veracruz.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

With the temperature at 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in Mexico City, Claudia, 5, (left) Lupita, 6, and other visitors to Alameda Central, a downtown public park, refresh themselves by playing in a water fountain. Dozens of people also crowded around the fountain to be cooled off by the breeze from the water.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

Every day, Daniel Canul, 22, spends five or six hours juggling for tips from the passing vehicles at a traffic stop in central Mexico City. Canul, who has been juggling for the past five years, earns about 300 Mexican pesos ($15.32) per day from this self-taught talent.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Siblings Bárbara, 7, and Javier, 9, take the teacup ride at a local fair set up for Day of the Holy Cross (Día de la Santa Cruz), on May 3 in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of central Mexico City. The brother and sister attend the celebrations every year.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Israel Hernández Guzmán, 30, constructed a carousel ride on April 20 for a celebration that paid homage to the Niñopa, a 16th-century wooden statue of the infant Jesus. This statue is brought periodically from the Mexico City delegation of Xochimilco, where it is kept, to the Xoco neighborhood in the southern part of the city. Hernández Guzmán has been involved with traveling fairs since he was a little boy.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

Javier Rodríguez, 29, carries supplies to clean tombstones at the San Nicolás Tolentino Civil Pantheon, a cemetery on the east side of Mexico City. Rodríguez, who also makes marble tombstones for the pantheon, sweeps and cleans tombstones for tips, at the request of the friends and families of the deceased.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

Andrés Durán, 17, who has been playing chess for 13 years, plays a noncompetitive game of giant chess after participating in the First Juan José Arreola Chess Tournament at Centro Cultural Universitario in southern Mexico City. The tournament, named after a famous 20th-century author, took place on April 22, as a part of La Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa, a festival celebrating words and wordsmiths.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Mariana Celestino González, 16, blows bubbles to attract customers in a public square in the Xochimilco delegation of southern Mexico City. Mariana prepares the mixture of liquid soap and water that she sells on weekends and holidays.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Emilio Gómez Osuna and his puppet Puerqui, a pig in a wheelchair who promotes diversity, performed songs with their musical group, Los Fabulosos Batracios, during the XXXIII Festival Gastronómico, or 33rd Gastronomic Festival, on April 7 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. In programs for younger audiences, this group, whose puppets also include toads and frogs, promotes friendship and environmentalism while discouraging bullying and sexual harassment.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico

Flor Juárez, 38, (right) and other tortilla sellers wait for customers at the entrance of Mercado 16 de Marzo, a market in the central Mexican city of Tehuacán in Puebla state. Juárez is originally from Santa María Coapan, a town famous for its handmade tortillas.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Arturo Cancino, 12, showcases his skills in jaripeo, Mexico’s brand of rodeo, on April 1 during a parade in the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state. This parade marks the beginning of the 150th anniversary of the city’s annual Feria de la Primavera y la Paz, a weeklong fair that begins every year on Easter Sunday and that celebrates spring and peace.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Isidro Martinez Gómez, 53, polishes shoes at his stand in the Parque Central Manuel Velasco Suárez, the central park in San Cristóbal de las Casas, in Chiapas state, Mexico. Martinez Gómez has been polishing shoes in the same location for 23 years. While he also sells newspapers, he says his shoe business has always been more profitable.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

Alain Gordillo, 19, begins a game of pool with friends at Club Opera, a billiards club in central Mexico City. Gordillo and his friends meet weekly at the club to play pool and socialize.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Mexico City, Mexico

Street artist Humo, 42, paints a mural under the tracks of Mexico City's metro line, as a part of a contract between the collective Sin Fronteras and the city's government to paint 30 walls with murals. Humo, who has been painting street art both legally and illegally for 23 years, takes two days to complete a mural.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

For three hours every day after school, Geovanni Tamayo, 16, plays handball with his friends at a basketball court in Mexico City's Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood. They don't play by the rules or to win points.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Felix Gamborino, 4, looks curiously into the mouth of a Mexican mask made of cardboard, as the boy listens to "chiptune," a musical form created from old video-game sounds. The Mexico City event was the Festival de Cartoneros Mexicanos, organized by the Museo del Juguete Antiguo México, a museum dedicated to traditional Mexican toys. The folk-art masks are made by molding figures out of cardboard or newspaper.

Photo by Mar García

Mexico City, Mexico

Yared Pawlat, 29, plays his handmade medieval bagpipe at the Plaza Cívica y Recreativa Ing. Eduardo Molina, a public park in the center of Mexico City. Pawlat's ancestors were from the region of Galicia in northwestern Spain, and he says that playing the bagpipes was passed down from his great-great-grandfather. He plays in public spaces to share the history of the instrument and Galician culture.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico

Women from each of the neighborhoods in the city of Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico, bring offerings of bread, sugar and fruit to the altar of San Sebastián. The women wear blouses stitched by hand using the "contado" technique, a traditional style of cross-stitch embroidery for Chiapaneca clothing, a style that dates back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each year, during the Fiesta Grande de Chiapa de Corzo, the figure of San Sebastián, a martyr who is one of the city's patron saints, is moved to a different home, where the altar of offerings is placed.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

In the town of San Juan Tepenáhuac, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Cándido Abad sits atop a maguey plant at the Centro de Educación Ambiental Tepenáhuac, an environmental-education center that he and 35 other property owners created to promote local biodiversity. Abad guides tours and shows visitors six varieties of maguey, a tall Mexican agave plant used to make pulque, a popular alcoholic drink, and other products.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

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