If you go to Oaxaca Mexico…
Getting there: Continental flies direct from Houston, Texas, to Oaxaca, or visitors can fly into Mexico City and get one of the frequent connecting flights to Oaxaca.
Getting around: Bicycle tours and local bus routes will take you to nearby towns. Some local restaurants and hotels offer day-trip package tours stopping at several towns or ruin sites, and first-class bus service to Mexico City and area beaches are available at a station near the city’s center, Calzada Heroes de Chapultepec 1036. For bicycle tours near Oaxaca City, try Bicicletas Pedro Martinez, 011-52-951-514-5935. (more…)
GUANAJUATO, Mexico — Houses painted hot pink, bright orange and cobalt blue tucked into cobbled alleyways too narrow for cars. . Sidewalk cafes, shady plazas and strolling street musicians.
Spain, Italy, France? It would be easy to mistake this university town in the mountains of Central Mexico for a medieval city in Europe. Substitute the easy-on-the-wallet peso for the pricey euro, and nearly year-round springlike weather and you’ve got a bargain travel destination where the U.S. dollar still buys more. (more…)
Giovani dos Santos Ramírez (born May 11, 1989 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican attacking midfielder, who can also play forward, who plays for FC Barcelona and the Mexican national team. Dos Santos was a member of the Mexican National U-17 team that won the 2005 U-17 World Cup held in Peru.
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Pharmacist have seen customers who run out of prescription refills turn to online pharmacies.
“This is a major problem,” said Perdue, chairman of the West Virginia House of Delegates’ Health and Human Resources Committee, who wants to see federal law changed to make it easier to shut down illicit pharmacies.oxycodone.
Congress is considering legislation that would clarify federal law on Internet pharmacies and increase penalties for selling pharmaceuticals to minors. (more…)
Something old and something new is as much a tradition with passport requirements as it is with weddings.
Feb. 1 brought new passport costs and requirements as well as opening day of applying for a passport alternative for certain destinations.
If you’re planning a vacation this year to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean, how you’re traveling will determine what documents you will need. (more…)
Cancun and its surrounding area of the Riviera Maya are Mexico’s top destination for international travelers, drawing more than 3.5 million visitors a year. The beach was the lure for the first visit my wife and I took six years ago. But since then, we’ve returned to explore the Northern Hemisphere’s largest barrier reef, natural springs pocking the Yucatan, mangrove swamps, salt marshes and thick jungle.
Much of the Yucatan is a flat limestone slab, topped with low jungle and scrub. There are no real rivers; the heavy seasonal rain seeps into sinkholes, known locally as cenotes, that have eroded over the millennia into the porous stone. The fresh water travels underground and percolates into the sea from natural springs.
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OAXACA, Mexico – Poinsettias carpet the carefully tended gardens of Oaxaca’s arch-ringed main plaza, the scent of coffee and mole sauce, two of Oaxaca’s specialties.
More visitors to Oaxaca will find a less crowded city with more local flavor than it had before the 2006 political uprising. There are fewer tourists, more open tables at restaurants ringing the square, and a new program that closes off the streets around the main plaza to create a pedestrian mall on the weekends. (more…)
Even experts in the plant must stop often and ask before finding it in the corner of Hall 25 in Puebla, some 120 km east of the Mexican capital.
The little old workhorse will likely be far from mind when Mexican President Felipe Calderon meets VW boss Martin Winterkorn in Puebla to celebrate quite a different watermark: the production of the 1-millionth model of its successor, the New Beetle, which is worldwide exclusively in production in Puebla.
It’s been 10 years since VW introduced the New Beetle. This year, the factory’s 16,000 workers are hustling to beat their old record from 2000, when 425,000 units were produced.
On the sidelines of the celebration in Puebla, the seat of the Mexican motor industry, Winterkorn and Calderon are to also discuss what’s next with German-Mexican auto production.
The cooperation already has quite a legacy, going back to the old Beetle.And even though the last Beetle in the world came off the Puebla assembly line in 2003, there is still a small corner of the huge 300-hectare factory dedicated to keeping it alive. (more…)
CONSIDERING all the recent speculation about hostility between blacks and Latinos, you have to cringe when you hear what happened to historian Christopher West on a working trip south of the border four years ago. The African American academic was helping research the influence of tourism on children in Isla Mujeres, an idyllic island near Cancun, when a local boy on the street threw a piece of pan dulce at him.
The insult (not the first he had encountered) might be seen as more evidence of that racial animosity, currently fueling the notion that some Latinos are cool to Sen. Barack Obama because he’s black. But West considered the gesture an anomaly and went on to shoot some hoops with his Mexican friends and colleagues.
In fact, the historian says he’s been accepted as family in some parts of Mexico, thanks to his wife, Ilda Jimenez, a Mexican American anthropologist he met when they were students at USC. The union of the two communities is reflected in their surname, which they changed to Jimenez y West. Today, as history curator at the California African American Museum, Christopher Jimenez y West continues to explore the often overlooked cultural connections between the country’s two largest minorities. This week, he was busy preparing for the opening of a groundbreaking exhibition, “The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present,” which celebrates what is called the Third Root of Mexican culture, adding African to the mix of European and native Indian.
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