Mexico Insight

As highlighted in part one, a fight for control of lucrative drug-trade routes between South America and the USA is propelling a wave of drug-gang violence in certain places in Mexico. The three cities most affected now are: Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana and Culiacan.  There have been brief flare-ups in other cities across Mexico, but these [...]

Mexico has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently, and we have received a few emails from people asking about the safety situation in Mexico.   This two-part blog gives a précis of the causes of the violence and examines how safe Mexico is for visitors. The escalating criminal violence in Mexico reported [...]

Starting in June 2008, Mexico’s tax authorities will launch a scheme that enables visitors to reclaim the sales tax, known in Mexico as the Impuesto de Valor Agregado (IVA), currently a rate of 15%, where visitors arrive by air or, in 2009, by cruise ship.  The scheme is similar to those operated in Europe, where sales tax may be recouped [...]

The term ‘Baby Boomer’ is a moniker popularized in North America to describe people born between 1946 and 1964, although the group has been further sub-divided by generational researchers into two sub-groups: those born between 1946 and 1953 and those between 1954 and 1964 respectively. As the Baby Boomers grew up, they became net beneficiaries [...]