While most of the world was watching* Obama win, people in Mexico (specially in Mexico City) were busy watching news that a plane had just crashed near one of the busiest intersections of the City, killing all its passengers and wounding at least 40 others in the street and nearby office buildings. The plane, a Lear jet, had eight people on board, among them Juan Camilo Mouriño, Secretary of the Interior [link in Spanish] and at least two other high ranking officials in the mexican federal government. [more inside]
posted by omegar on Nov 5, 2008 - 52 comments

18,000 naked Mexicans can't be wrong.
posted by ZenMasterThis on May 7, 2007 - 72 comments

Mexico City Aerial Photography
by Oscar Ruiz, helicopter pilot. [via]
posted by peacay on Aug 24, 2005 - 41 comments