From Tacos to TikTok: How Mateo Chávez Became the Planet’s Favorite Cactus-Wielding Anti-Hero
Mateo Chávez and the Beautiful, Doomed Dream of the Global Everyman By our correspondent in the departures lounge of a half-built airport that will never open MEXICO CITY—Somewhere between the mariachi-themed Starbucks and the fourth immigration checkpoint, Mateo Chávez became an international metaphor. The 37-year-old Mexico City street-vendor—who owes his new fame to a seventeen-second…
