Mexico Insight

Hurricane Dean increased in strength slightly before making landfall in the state of Veracruz on Mexico’s Gulf Coast early Wednesday morning.   Damage was limited, there are no reported fatalities, and locals are planning to get back to normal as soon as possible.  The remnants of the storm, as it moves west, are causing overcast skies […]

Hurricane Dean landed on the Yucatan peninsula as a category 5 hurricane, but afterwards reduced to a category 2 storm as it entered land. Â
Flooding and high winds are still prevalent in the region, although no loss of life has been reported.  A red alert continues to be in place while the storm moves across the […]

Hurricane Dean, the first big Caribbean hurricane of 2007, is making its way to Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, after having caused damage and the loss of up to six lives as it swept across the eastern side of the Caribbean.
July-September is the ‘official rainy season’ for most of Mexico, although hurricanes are most frequent between August […]