A Month in Patzcuaro – Commerce
Last Friday, December 12th, was Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe, one of Mexico’s most important religious events. In the evening, many of Patzcuaro’s townsfolk headed for the basilica to attend the special mass...
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A Month in Patzcuaro – Bearings
Settling-in to Patzcuaro and getting your bearings is easy. This small mountain town is laid out in a grid pattern, in tandem with most colonial settlements across Mexico. The town’s main square, or Plaza Grande, features...
A Month in Patzcuaro
So, what is it like living in a colonial town in Mexico? It’s a question often asked by people who are doing online research about relocating here. To find out, your writer moved to Pátzcuaro for a month and will be posting...
A King Among Kings
Argentine cartoonist Quino (Joaquín Lavado), creator of the Mafalda comic strip, is in Mexico this week. Mafalda, which Quino began drawing in 1964 and continued until 1973, was always popular in Mexico, itself home to some of the world's finest political cartoonists...
Mexico Weather Maps
The BBC’s weather service has launched a new version of its leading-edge technology weather maps on the Internet, which offer detailed imagery and forecasts for countries and regions around the world – including Mexico.
New Design for $200 Peso Bank Note
On September 8th 2008, the Bank of Mexico began to circulate a new series of the $200 Peso bank note. This latest issue follows-on from the re-design of the $50, $20 and $1,000 Peso Bank Notes, which are leaving behind the 'arty' Aztec...
Mexican Real Estate Developers
Real Estate Development companies are now well established in Mexico. Their presence in the Mexican real estate market is giving life to realty projects which offer a safe, professional and straightforward method to purchase a home here...
Mexico’s Taxi Colors
Street cabs in many capital cities around the world are painted in a standard color so as to make them easily recognizable and, at times, iconic; for example, the Yellow Cabs in New York, and the Black Cabs in London . . .
Read All About It
For a country where people read notoriously few books, and not too many newspapers, Mexico has a reasonably large number of news-stands and vendors - on just about every street corner, in fact. The larger stands sell more than just newspapers...
Mexico Wins ‘Most Beautiful Flag’ Poll
One of the readers of 20Minutos.es, a Spanish daily, launched an online poll within his 'web space', asking readers to vote for the flag which they felt was the most attractive, from an initial list of 104. The contest closed on July 7,...
Is Mexico Safe?
As highlighted in part one of this article, 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.
Drug Violence in Mexico
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...
