My story for OPIS on how installations from TotalEnergies, INEOS and SABIC UK obtained $127 million in free carbon allowances despite their plants being inactive or emitting as little as 78 metric tons of carbon in a year.
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Story in The Houston Landing
My story on how Settegast residents - the neighborhood with the lowest life expectancy in Houston - plan to transform a defunct event venue into a health care facility.
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NACLA: Review of 'Argentina 1985'
My review for NACLA on a movie that marked a historic moment in Latin American - and world - history.
OPIS: How the UK Gov Issued $60M in Free UKAs to 3 Largely Offline Plants
My story on how three different companies - CF Industries, BP and Spirit Energy - were issued millions of dollars in UK carbon allowances despite their plants being offline for the entirety or part of 2022.
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European Energy Crunch Support Carbon Prices Despite Economic Woes (OPIS)
My analysis and interviews on how the current geopolitical situation in Europe will affect the European Union’s emissions allowances - the price of carbon - as it seeks to wean itself off from Russian fossil fuels.
Read MorePM Rishi Sunak and the road ahead for the Tories (Live ADN40 interview)
I discuss the process by which PM Rishi Sunak was “elected” to 10 Downing Street, the increasing pressure to temper the cost of living crisis and what the first non-white PM in Britain’s history means and represents - or not - in post-Brexit Britain.
Read MoreArtists Rally Against Erasure of Mexico City’s Iconic Street Art (NACLA)
A mayor’s edict in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood of Mexico City whitewashes rótulos, the iconic designs of street vendors that have adorned city streets for generations.
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Ciudad natal adoptiva (Adopted hometown)
Desde Iztapalapa.
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Irish 11 amber ale, ship to wreck
Waco, Tejas
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The port of entry at the Laredo - Nuevo Laredo crossing on Nov. 7.
For NACLA: New Life in Laredo as the Border Reopens
For nearly two years during the pandemic, Mexicans could not cross the Rio Grande for shopping, tourism, or family visits. Border cities dependent on their business were hit hard but have hope now that the travel ban has been lifted.
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Rompan Todo: La Historia del Rock en Latinoamérica (Review)
This 2020 Netflix documentary examines the origins and development of Latin American rock and the role it has played in the region’s history and politics.
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Credit: TresPM.mx (source: https://www.trespm.mx/cultura/origen-y-significado-de-las-serpientes-y-escaleras )
Serpientes y escaleras (chutes and ladders)
From the book I’m planning to write.
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On returning
Expansive blues
I thought I knew these skies.
Read MoreFrom Nuevo León to Texas to Tokyo 2020: Mexican Swimmer Ángel Mártinez
Ángel Mártinez knew no English when he arrived to Texas A&M’s Division I swim team back in 2015. This month, he is in Tokyo for the swim meet of his life.
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It rains in Mexico, Buenos Aires, and London
Mexican and English humor. Healing cynical hearts since 1966 and 1970.
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Collapsed ceilings, magic, lazy words
It’s been a weird few weeks.
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Knewing
The stench of dying flames confirms my fabrications.
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Liminal States Across the Mexican Border
This is part of a series on South-South Globalisation and getting stories from a diverse group of students at the University of Oxford on identity, race, nationality, language and all the gritty and undefined areas in between all of these.
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Unrelated.
March short stories
Short stories, shorter nonsense.
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Story for North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) on Mexico City's informal economy
A year into the pandemic, informal sector workers in Mexico City continue to work without state aid, a social safety net and, at times, revenues.
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