Ronda Kaysen is a freelance reporter in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Architectural Record and other publications. Before moving to Mexico, she was a city reporter in New York, writing for The New York Observer and The Villager newspapers.

Blog Entries by Ronda Kaysen

Branding Baby

Posted June 27, 2007 | 03:39 PM (EST)


Last Friday, the Wall Street Journal alerted me to this tidbit of shopping news: I can pay someone to name my baby for me. Whew! That's a relief. I was beginning to worry that I might actually have to do this one all by my lonesome.

My dear husband and...

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A Joyride Through Mexico's Healthcare System

Posted June 11, 2007 | 12:46 PM (EST)


When I tell my friends in America that I'm having a baby in Mexico City, they often gasp with contained horror. What they don't realize is that as the Democratic candidates line up with vague plans about how to fix America's broken managed care system, in Mexico they already have...

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