Carolyne Zinko, a native of Wisconsin, joined The San Francisco Chronicle in 1993 as a news reporter covering Peninsula crime, city government and political races.

"The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle" aims, like Novo's crónicas, to account from the inside.The unfolding narrative, however, is not only an attempt to illustrate the complexity of the ...

Mexico City is home to some 20 million people, spread out in 6,400 neighborhoods. Although it is plagued by numerous problems — pollution, traffic, overcrowding and the fact that much of the ...