Cels Flores

Abogada, temas inmobiliarios, orgullosa de mi alma mater @UNAM. Cine, música, libros.

[Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados A.C. @BMA_Abogados]

Los acuerdos prenupciales son clave para un futuro financiero sólido en el matrimonio. Prepararse para las decisiones financieras de hoy, asegura la tranquilidad de mañana. #AcuerdosPrenupciales #FinanzasMatrimoniales

[Luis Enrique Pereda @luis_e_pereda]

¿La cancha está pareja? ¿Las nuevas reglas preservan el delicado equilibrio entre la eficacia recaudatoria y las garantías procesales de los contribuyentes? La reforma a la ley del contencioso administrativo invita a reflexionar sobre estas preguntas.

📰https://t.co/gz9oGQfzd9

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Part 5. In 1519, Hernán Cortés wrote a letter to the King of Spain describing the main market of Tenochtitlan as "twice as large as that of the city of Salamanca," with 60,000 people buying and selling there every day. Salamanca was one of the largest cities in Spain. Cortés had spent years in cities. He had never written a letter like this one.

Tenochtitlan had an estimated 200,000 people when Cortés arrived. London at the time had around 70,000. Rome had roughly 50,000. The city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco, connected to the mainland by three massive causeways, each wide enough for ten horses side by side. A twin-piped aqueduct carried fresh water from Chapultepec Hill into the city, one pipe in use while the other was cleaned. The streets were swept daily. Spanish soldiers wrote home about how clean they were. Tenochtitlan had public toilets at intervals on the causeways and inside the market.

Feeding 200,000 people on a lake required a solution no European city had attempted. The Aztecs engineered chinampas: permanent agricultural plots built directly into the shallow parts of Lake Texcoco, constructed from layers of lake mud and organic matter, separated by narrow canals that kept the soil irrigated year-round. Because crops sat above lake water permanently, the growing season never stopped. Well-managed chinampas could produce up to seven harvests annually. Their yields ran as high as 13 times more food per hectare than European grain farming of the same era. The chinampas of Xochimilco, in the southern part of what is now Mexico City, are still working today and are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Cortés destroyed Tenochtitlan in 1521. The Spanish then drained Lake Texcoco over the following centuries and built Mexico City on top of the ruins, using the drained lake clay as foundation. That clay has been compacting ever since. In 2026, NASA satellite data confirmed Mexico City is sinking by roughly 10 inches per year on average, with some areas moving faster. Over the past century, the ground has dropped nearly 40 feet in total. The Metropolitan Cathedral, construction begun in 1573 directly on the site of the Aztec ceremonial center, now visibly tilts to one side from the uneven subsidence. The main city square, the Zócalo, sits below the elevation of where the lake's surface once was.

The Spanish built a city on a lake they drained. The lake is still taking it back.

Cortés wrote to the Spanish king that the market at Tenochtitlan sold goods from across the known world. The city that held that market is still sinking into the lake that fed it.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

When you eat Mexican food, your brain releases endorphins and dopamine. Capsaicin, the compound in chili peppers, binds to pain receptors in your mouth. Your brain reads this as a threat and counters with feel-good chemicals. The burn in a good salsa triggers the same pathway as a runner's high.

This is all happening on top of a food tradition more than 3,000 years in the making. The tortilla in a chicharron taco exists because of nixtamalization, a process Mesoamerican cooks developed roughly 3,200 years ago. Corn kernels are soaked in lime water, which releases niacin, a B vitamin that corn otherwise locks away in an indigestible form. Without this step, corn-heavy diets cause pellagra, a B-vitamin deficiency that killed around 7,000 Americans per year at its peak in the early 20th century. Southern sharecroppers were eating corn without the process Mexico had preserved for three millennia.

In 2010, the UN added Mexican cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the first year any national food culture had ever qualified. The application covered seed preservation, farming customs, ritual preparation, and thousands of years of cooking knowledge passed through communities.

The diversity inside that designation is hard to picture. Mexico has 59 varieties of heirloom corn, more than 60 distinct chili pepper types, and 32 states with cuisines different enough that Oaxacan mole negro (a dark sauce from dried chili and chocolate) and Yucatecan cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork in a smoky red spice paste) share almost no ingredients. Oaxaca alone has more than 20 types of mole. Mole poblano uses more than 20 ingredients, including several chili varieties, dark chocolate, and cinnamon, in a single sauce.

Chicharron fires three systems at once. Fat carries flavor deep into the palate. The crunch comes from pork skin dried, then dropped in 375-degree oil. The trapped moisture turns to steam, puffs the skin, and produces thousands of flavor compounds through the same browning chemistry that makes coffee and seared meat smell incredible. Then the salsa lands capsaicin on top of everything and the dopamine kicks in.

The "best food ever" reaction has a chemical basis. You are tasting dopamine from capsaicin, browning chemistry from pork fat at high heat, and a tortilla built on a process 3,200 years old. These flavors were engineered to do exactly this.

[Nayeli Roldán @nayaroldan]

Esto de adelantar cinco meses el desfile de catrinas me recordó cuando Maduro adelantó la Navidad. 🥲
Resulta que el gobierno mexicano arma artificialmente una tradición para que los turistas vivan lo que vieron en una película de Hollywood.
Aoc…

[Google Earth @googleearth]

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[Cels Flores @Celsflosan]

@BlairMcNally1 You have a good trip!

[Doña Viky (la buscadora que canta) @manosbuscadoras]

Presidenta @Claudiashein, apenas regresé a casa, al lugar que nunca debió convertirse en punto de partida para salir a buscar a mi hijo. Pero quiero decir algo sobre lo que dijo de nosotras ayer en la mañanera:

Le pido que no deje que las autoridades se distraigan investigando cómo le hicimos para ir a la CDMX, yo le digo:

Llegamos de la misma forma que llegamos a cada búsqueda: con los pesos contados, cansadas, con hambre, rezando y sin saber si comeremos. Pero ahí estábamos, luchando como cada día.

Ahora que lo sabe, pídale a la Fiscalía por favor, que en lugar de perder tiempo para saber cómo llegamos, se pongan a investigar cómo se fueron nuestros hijos.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

For the weakest economy among the host countries, the World Cup offers Mexico a rare chance to present itself as safer, richer and more modern than many outsiders assume. But it also carries political risk https://t.co/F9TbXvucU7

[Andrea Meraz @merazr]

No había visto la tremenda fotografía de Hugo Salvador para El Universal en la marcha de familiares de desaparecidos rumbo al Estadio Azteca.

La dejo para que no quede en el olvido

[Javier Laynez Potisek @LaynezPotisek]

Es natural que, por su función, las Ministras y Ministros reciban invitaciones a múltiples eventos, tanto públicos como privados. La realidad es que son muy pocas las que se extienden por simple cortesía; por el contrario, suelen perseguir también una cercanía que termina por restarles libertad.

Aceptarlas, aunque se diga que en nada afecta, erosiona algo más sutil que la imparcialidad misma, que es su apariencia. Y la independencia judicial no solo hay que tenerla, también hay que parecerla.

[Cels Flores @Celsflosan]

@lupita_hinojosa @SushiRollmx @SATMX Justo lo comentamos el otro día, aunque si mandas el ticket por correo te facturan, no sin regañarte, porque no lo hiciste en tiempo😾

[Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados A.C. @BMA_Abogados]

Las mascotas son cada vez más parte de la familia. Ahora, las leyes comienzan a reconocer el vínculo emocional, abordando la custodia de mascotas en divorcios. #CustodiaMascotas #DerechoAnimal Revive Abogacía Trabajando aquí: https://t.co/IwVHhMvwtZ

[Agence France-Presse @AFPespanol]

Decenas de manifestantes y policías se enfrentan en el exterior del estadio Azteca, en Ciudad de México, mientras se disputa el partido inaugural del Mundial de 2026 en el recinto, constatan periodistas de la #AFP #AFPdeportes

[Cels Flores @Celsflosan]

@cynsol @lupita_hinojosa Pues con tal de meter comerciales

[amjuzgadoras @amjuzgadoras]

📍 Desde la Concentración Nacional por la Independencia Judicial.

“Íbamos caminando por la banqueta y nos encapsularon.”

La magistrada en retiro María Emilia Molina, presidenta de AMJAC, relata los hechos ocurridos durante la Concentración Nacional por la Independencia Judicial.

En una democracia, manifestarse pacíficamente es un derecho.
@EMILIAMDLAP
#AMJAC #IndependenciaJudicial #EstadoDeDerecho

[Datos Aeronáuticos ◽ @CapLaloVargas]

Así las obras del mundial en CDMX

[Cels Flores @Celsflosan]

@lupita_hinojosa Pudiendo poner la primera parte del show nocturno de Xcaret, ese sí te pone la piel chinita

[Cels Flores @Celsflosan]

@lupita_hinojosa Cringe

[Cels Flores @Celsflosan]

@joserra_espn Eso que fue?