“It has been said that mythology is the penultimate truth—penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”

– Joseph Campbell

As prescription and patent medicines in pharmacies continue to soar in price, many Mexican citizens are returning to less expensive traditional therapies.

Toward the wary end of a scattered, heat-gripped city week, the quiet balm of a portal-shaded cantina table beckons.

May and early June are the hottest, driest months—the roughest time for campesinos.

Before 11 a.m., April 22, a reader called one of the REPORTER’s contributors about downtown explosions. Then relatives of staff members rang, asking about the sector Reforma blasts that had killed hundreds, they said, possibly thousands.

Allyn Hunt, former owner and editor of  this newspaper died February 3, 2022. This is the last of  a month-long series of his columns, covering some of his favorite topics the Reporter has published in his memory.