Mexico Insight

Marianne Carlson leads a non-profit organization whose purpose is to bring people’s attention to indigenous Mexican artists and enable them to reach out to potential collectors of their unique crafts.  In this article, Marianne explains how the organization came about and how Feria Expocision del Arte can help you to find and acquire unique hand-crafted [...]

Starting May 1, new immigration procedures are being brought into effect in Mexico. We outlined the key changes that will be introduced in a previous blog published last month, and these have now been integrated to our guides about Mexico Entry Requirements and Mexican Immigration. In summary, procedures for tourists who carry a passport from [...]

In a bid to clamp down on email spam, Telmex and other major internet companies running WiFi spots in Mexico have shut down access to Port 25—the port most commonly used for sending email when you are using an email client like Outlook, Windows Mail, Thunderbird or Entourage. This means that when you attempt to use [...]

In the pre-web era, most hotels reservations were made via a local travel agent, or perhaps using a specialist hotel booking firm that would advertise sample rates in newspapers and magazines so as to entice readers to telephone the agency. Then one day, along came the Internet. Mexperience, in association with ETS, offers you live [...]

Internet Explorer (IE)—Microsoft’s name for its popular Internet browser—has come a long way over the last ten years.  Unfortunately, Internet Explorer Version 6 (IE6) was a particularly gruesome browser that did not (and does not) adhere to web standards and causes all sorts of headaches for web designers.   IE6 is so poor at rendering web [...]

The April 2010 edition of Vista, our Mexico Newsletter, is being published today. If you are already registered for our newsletter, you’ll receive the latest issue in your email inbox soon. If you’re not registered yet, registration is free and takes just a few moments.   You can also access this latest edition as well as [...]

By Ronald Buchanan Guest Writer on Mexico Insight Good news for American retirees in Mexico. Good news, too, for Mexico’s struggling economy. According to Andrés Oppenheimer, the well-informed Miami Herald columnist,  President Felipe Calderón wants to persuade the US government to make Medicare benefits payable for treatment in Mexico to US retirees.  Right now Medicare [...]

The Leventer Group, a Latin American research company with offices in Mexico and Argentina, has published a report with findings about customer satisfaction in regards to airlines serving Mexico.  The report covers seven airlines: five are Mexican-based companies; two are American-based carriers with extensive operations in Mexico. The survey’s report is sub-headed into groups such [...]

The deadline to register your Mexican cell phone or face disconnection has passed; however, no one has had their cell phone disconnected—yet. Not wishing to harm their revenues, or alienate customers who have not registered their cell phones, the cell phone companies applied to the Mexican courts for injunctions preventing the new cell phone registration [...]

In the weeks leading up to the Easter break, the Mexican Congress, acting on requests from all of Mexico’s cell phone operators, passed a law extending the cell phone registration date by one year, to April 10, 2011. The Bill, that needed to be passed by the Senate to become law, waited in limbo over [...]