Valeria Guerra and Karina Barbosa, students of journalism and biotechnical engineering, respectively, at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, also known as Monterrey Tech, in Monterrey, Mexico, tell us a bit about their daily activities, the school and the city of Monterrey itself.

Paty loves her university as much as she loves her city. In this video she tells us about the wide variety of museums and other interesting places that Mexico City has to offer.

You may know the baraja española, the Spanish deck of cards, with its classic renderings of kings and knights in four suits. Our illustrator friend Antonio Vargas created a uniquely Mexican baraja with native imagery drawing from the pre-Columbian Aztec, Olmec, Toltec and Mayan cultures.

As it turns out the young Arturo Vega, Mexican emigré actor and artist in New York, lived below a girl who was seeing a young man named Douglas Glenn Colvin (who would come to be known as “Dee Dee Ramone”). The two visionaries got to talking…