The fare on the Metro may have gone up to three pesos now, but it is still as amazing an experience (especially compared to taking the bus) to find yourself whisked around the metropolis now as it was when Chava Flores first wrote this little train ridin’ song (performed by Oscar Chavez) back in the early 1970s.
I’ve been in every one of the Metro Stations mentioned in the song, but I don’t think that’s particularly unusual.
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The background of Mexican anti-clericalism and the "atheist" general who led the Catholic counter-revolution of the 1920s 128 pp., Editorial Mazatlán, 2012.
An oral history of the World War II experiences of Gilberto Bosques (1894 – 1997), Mexico 's Consul General in Marseilles, France, who saved tens of thousands from the Nazis. 36 pp. Editorial Mazatlán, 2007 $35 MXP (click the image)
