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If we’d ask any of you residents of the Belize City to tell us what this city is, you’d probably have a hard time – because it is so many things. So imagine if we asked any of the twenty million residents of Mexico City to tell us what that place is!? Well, that would be almost impossible. But instead of words, photo-journalist Francisco Mata has used pictures and we all know each of those is worth a thousand words. Well, his pictures are loaded! We’d say they’re an easy ten thousand words each –so this morning we virtually read a book on the story of Mexico in an exhibit at the Mexican Cultural Center. Public Relations Director Marcelino Miranda was our guide.

Marcelino Miranda, PR Director
“This photo exhibition is trying to show the Belizean public the real face of Mexico, especially Mexico City. Mexico City has the many faces of Mexico and the many faces of which Mexicans live their everyday life and this is a very good opportunity for the Belizean public to visit Mexico City. This is free ticket to Mexico City. This is the real Mexico, this is not Chetumal, and so we are going to be travelling through these pictures to the real Mexico, to the core of Mexico.

This is a city in which ancient Aztec traditions join with modern beliefs and also the tradition of the Catholic religion and the Spanish culture. We can see people having a very strong Aztec tradition but with Catholic beliefs. We can see syncretism through these pictures.”

The exhibit is free and open to the public until the middle of next month. The public – particularly school children are welcome to attend.