December 12 Celebrating Virgin of Guadalupe Tara A. Spears The magic of the holiday season in Mexico begins December 12 with candlelight processions all over the nation in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico. Mary is depicted with…
Seasonal Bonus: Pay your Workers by Nayarit Editor Tara A. Spears Ho ho ho it’s holiday time and time to pay your workers their Aguinaldo-the Christmas bonus pay. According to the Mexican labor website, Aguinaldo 2018 deadline for paying the end-of-the-year bonus…
Hello, AMLO: Seven Things to Know About Andrés Manuel López Obrador Markets have been too quick to panic about Mexico’s next president. By John Authers Andrés Manuel López Obrador is a seductive politician. From 2000 to 2005, he used to woo me,…
Trump signs trade deal with Mexico and Canada US President Donald Trump and leaders from Canada and Mexico have signed the successor to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The revised deal has been renamed as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or…
Valladolid, Yucatan Wins Travel Influencer Award as Top 2019 Travel Destination (Photo: paginas.seccionamarilla.com.mx) Valladolid among nine destinations selected by panel of popular travel influencers as poised to boom in 2019. Denver, USA (November 30, 2018) – A panel consisting of six of…
The beheading of Pancho Villa… 92 years of mystery By Yucatan Times “He invited him back to his room to show him something… It was the head of Pancho Villa” Early on February 6, 1926, a graveyard caretaker named Juan Amparan was…
AMLO on the campaign trail. ‘Not even fraud can stop me now:’ presidential frontrunner AMLO López Obrador says it will take a miracle for his rivals to beat him The man who appears likely to win the presidential election in two weeks…
Change Ahead with the Mexican Presidential Election 2018 Tara A. Spears – Nayarit Editor While most people planning to visit Mexico only want to think about things to do rather than politics, at least be aware that there is a presidential…
Bourdain with Abigail Mendoza, second from left, in Oaxaca. Anthony Bourdain had a deep love affair with Mexico and Mexican cuisine “Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a…
Mexican Coffee Culture by Tara A. Spears – Editor Nayarit Edition The poets have called it “the black nectar of dreams”. As a drink or as a grain, coffee has witnessed the great events of modern Mexican history. It doesn’t matter…