MexicoThe army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended
Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed.
El Limoncito Mexico mapThe village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. Read More...
From the Guardian archiveCharlie Chaplin7 June 1947: From his home in California, Chaplin talks about new film Monsieur Verdoux, the enraged reaction to it from the American press – and his sense of impending calamity
Hollywood, May
Standing before his large English fireplace, Mr Chaplin spoke about the new film on which he is now engaged. It will revive the old Charlie with his baggy clothes and funny boots. He will be a displaced person from Europe who lands in the United States, becomes a nine-day wonder, tires of pomp and circumstance, and sails again for Europe, waving goodbye to the Statue of Liberty. Read More...
ClassicsObituaryMartin West obituaryScholar of ancient Greek poetry
The pre-eminent scholar of ancient Greek poetry Martin West, who has died aged 77, compared his work to a climbing-frame – something three-dimensional to move about in, and to be indefinitely extended with all the parts interconnecting. In this he differed from his hero, the great German scholar Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Where Wilamowitz embodied the ideal of an all-encompassing science of antiquity, Martin’s work was a series of brilliantly creative but logical expansions around an original core. Read More...