The Mexpat Dispatch: March 7
5 arts + culture stories from the national conversation
Welcome to The Mexpatriate.
Life (and death) imitated art at the funeral of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho) on Monday in Zapopan. Footage of the glinting gold-plated casket, women hiding beneath black umbrellas in the blazing Guadalajara sun, heavily armed soldiers on alert, wreaths of red and white roses depicting a rooster—El Mencho was known for his passion for cockfighting—looked like they could have been filmed for an episode of Narcos Mexico. A bitter contrasting image to the narco fosas where thousands of bodies end up cruelly disposed.
The question of how much art—in a very generous use of the term—can imitate life without legal consequence was also part of the national conversation this week, as you’ll read below. In today’s dispatch, I cover five arts and culture stories, ranging from Sheinbaum’s boost to the film industry, to the peculiar “therian” phenomenon, to the death of a beloved Mexican artist.
