25 expat voices: Ron Buchanan

In their own words

By Inside México Original Print Publication: February, 2009

For the "25 Mexicans You Should Know" edition of Inside México (November 2007) our editorial team sat in a room for hours, proposing and debating names of candidates, eventually whittling the list to a mix of well and less-well-known figures, each illuminating some aspect of this country.

For "25 Expats," we decided to do something different. We put the word out. We invited you, our readers, to tell us who to highlight. E-mailed nominations poured in from around the country, and several of you even called.

This inaugural group of 2009 finalists is a diverse bunch in terms of where they are from, where they live and what they do. You've helped us round up the expat equivalent of the "butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker." In this case, however, it is the activist, the developer and the expat filmmaker...and the dog rescuer, the theater founder, the birder, and the book store owner. The list goes on.

The common thread running through each selection is the effort these people make to build community between expats and Mexicans. We think that by doing so, they are helping to expand the definition of Mexico. That is what immigrants do.

Expat: Ron Buchanan

Ron Buchanan

Profession: Journalist

Originally from: Glasgow, Scotland.

Lives in: The port city of Veracruz.

Living in Mexico: I lived here from 1981 until just after the 1986 World Cup. Then I went back to London, where I worked with The Guardian once again. In 1994, I returned to Mexico and I've been here ever since. So that's a total of about 21 years.

Why did you move to Mexico?

After several years working on national newspapers in London (The Guardian and, briefly, the Financial Times), I took a job as editor of a series of publications that specialized in Latin America. Earlier I had lived in Spain and Cuba, so I knew the language. When the job of correspondent in Mexico came up, I was keen to get out of London and went for it.

You became a dual citizen. When and why did you decide to do that?

I became a naturalized Mexican citizen six years ago. I don't intend to live anywhere else and the annual battle of red tape that surrounded renewal of my FM2 was getting too much for me. I have a Mexican wife and son, so naturalization was an obvious option. And Britain has never had any problem about Her Majesty's loyal subjects swearing allegiance to other nations.

Tell us about your work as a journalist in Mexico.

I was a journalist long before I arrived in Mexico. After a spell as a construction worker and barman, I broke into journalism with a Glasgow daily. Why? No noble reasons really. There's a lot less work and much more pay as a journalist than as a construction worker or barman. Over the years in Mexico I've been a freelance contributor to many publications. I still write very occasionally for the Sunday Times of London, the Financial Times, and others, but my mainstay these days is energy reporting for Platts. I also provide a daily news service for a website on Central America. In the past I've been editor of the Mexico City Times and of a Spanish-language business weekly, El Asesor. Both publications are now defunct. Does that say something about me?

Are you involved in other organizations, activities, or hobbies here?

I wish I could say I had a rich social life, but it just ain't so. Not that it bothers me, though. I go swimming two or three times a week and visit the same cantina every Friday night, except when I'm visiting Mexico City, of course.

Do you have a specific Mexico "moment" that makes you think, "That's what I love about this place"?

I do have such a memory, but it's not one that can be repeated in a respectable publication.

What are both the best and the hardest things about being an expat in Mexico?

Really I don't think of myself as an expat. I've never really been involved in expat activities in all the years I've spent here, though I do enjoy meeting people from Britain, America, and other countries. In the parlance of Britain's former colonial service, I've "gone bush" here in Mexico.

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