No news is good news
Alexis Okeowo, whose great strength as a foreign correspondent, has always been her keen perception of everyday life, and the smaller events that illuminate the headlines, has been in Sub-Saharan Africa, but recently returned to Mexico City… where, in what has to be a tough assignment, she sets out to find… not much is happening.
Few things have transfixed the collective Mexican imagination like secuestros expresses, or express kidnappings. From the startling abduction and eventual release of former presidential candidate Diego Fernández de Cevallos, to the kidnapping (and, often, murder) of less high-profile Mexicans and Central American immigrants, no one has felt immune. There are stories of people hailing cabs on the street, only to be taken for a drive out of town, robbed, and sometimes beaten. Still, on my first day back in Mexico City, a friend and I stepped out into a wide avenue after crisscrossing through the sunlit side streets and green parks of the neighborhood La Roma, a cab pulled up, and without much hesitation, we got inside. Then and during the rest of our trip, we were fine.
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