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Mexico City: Hope is a kiss

Mexico City: Hope is a kiss * Photo gr a phic Mexico City Hope is a kiss 3 Peter Kayafas The Baffler [no.22] ! 17 P H OTO G R A P H S BY P E TE R K AYA FA S 18 1 The Baffler [no.22] ore than half of Mexico City’s twenty-one million people are under twenty-five. They congregate in El Zócalo, Plaza Garibaldi, Metros Chapultepec and Insurgentes, and La Zona Rosa; in front of Las Bellas Artes; and around the markets of El Chopo, Sonora, and La Merced. No sign of the drug caches, piles of weapons, and bloody corpses that saturate U.S. media coverage. You see young people who look like their counterparts in any big city of the world—though maybe they are a little more animated than Parisians and more spirited than New Yorkers. They’re certainly more publicly amorous.t The M Baffler [no.22] ! 19 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Baffler MIT Press

Mexico City: Hope is a kiss

Kayafas, Peter
The Baffler – Mar 1, 2013
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MIT Press
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© 2012 Peter Kayafas
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1059-9789
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10.1162/BFLR_a_00127
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* Photo gr a phic Mexico City Hope is a kiss 3 Peter Kayafas The Baffler [no.22] ! 17 P H OTO G R A P H S BY P E TE R K AYA FA S 18 1 The Baffler [no.22] ore than half of Mexico City’s twenty-one million people are under twenty-five. They congregate in El Zócalo, Plaza Garibaldi, Metros Chapultepec and Insurgentes, and La Zona Rosa; in front of Las Bellas Artes; and around the markets of El Chopo, Sonora, and La Merced. No sign of the drug caches, piles of weapons, and bloody corpses that saturate U.S. media coverage. You see young people who look like their counterparts in any big city of the world—though maybe they are a little more animated than Parisians and more spirited than New Yorkers. They’re certainly more publicly amorous.t The M Baffler [no.22] ! 19

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Published: Mar 1, 2013

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