200 photos for 200 years of Mexico
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As Mexico marks its bicentennial, staff writer Christopher Reynolds has pulled out 200 photos from about two-dozen trips over the last 20 years.
Look closely among the faces and landscapes and you’ll spot a perfect cross cut in a cactus, a donkey in disguise, a fake Muslim minaret, an artwork made of seeds, three really loud bedspreads, a coyote on an island, a coatimundi on a mountain and a freelance fire breather on the streets of Tijuana.
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