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How to Move Money from the USA to Mexico: Checks, Wire Transfers, ATMs

July 15, 2014 Cashing US checks at Mexican banks, transferring money into Mexico, and avoiding big ATM fees has definitely become more difficult since the US Govt’s July 1 FATCA new rule additions. Some banks and financial institutions are now … Continue reading

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What if it’s not … about politics … nor about ideas?

July 9, 2014 Are “Traditionalists” different from “Conservatives”? Identical twin and fraternal twin studies show: Obedience to Traditional Authority*: … “authoritarianism, religiousness and conservatism”, called the “traditional moral values triad”, are “substantially influenced by genetic factors” according to 2 different … Continue reading

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A knock at the door…

July 7, 2014 It always starts out so innocently, with only the best intentions: LSHIDMTASMB …Laughing so hard I dropped my taco AND spilled my beer! Like the mouser-cat that must show all trophies before eating them, I drug this … Continue reading

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Just what are we doing here…

July 6, 2014 Just what are we doing here? … in blogs,  on webforums,  … on facebook or twitterr? Have you considered that writing is “cognitively unnatural”? (Steven Pinker)    “For almost all human existence, nobody wrote anything; even after that, … Continue reading

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Useful Mexican Websites : A Starting Point

Nov. 10, 2014 Update Want to import your Mexican car into the USA?  Here’s the CBP link that describes the hows and whys:  https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/425/~/registering-a-foreign-registered-vehicle,-car-or-motorcycle-in-the-u.s.-with August 30, 2014 Update Items prohibited for shipping into Mexico and items prohibited for shipping inside … Continue reading

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The Source of the previous month’s Bad Magna has been identified …

June 17, 2014 Fallas en las gasolineras Un defecto en las bombas causó la “gasolina sucia” El Diario de Yucatán http://yucatan.com.mx/merida/gobierno-merida/fallas-en-las-gasolineras The latest word from PROFECO… “… problemas en la calidad de la gasolina Magna,,, tuvieron un inusual trabajo para … Continue reading

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Free Registration of Children with Mexican Citizenship Rights

June 17, 2014 The Mexican government just amended Article 4 of its constitution eliminating fees to register a child born in Mexico.  The published changes now include giving the first copy of the birth certificate for free. The states will … Continue reading

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US Unemployment Continues to Methodically Drop by both U3 and U6 Measures

June 4, 2014 Conservatives,  Tea Partiers, and Talking Heads on some business channels still chatter over “high unemployment” and a “weak economy”,  but  U6 and U3 unemployment measures of the actual numbers show a  different picture   of~ definitive trends~ ?: … Continue reading

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Aduana Website for Checking Temporary Import Permit Status for Foreign Cars in Mexico

June 4, 2014 As regular guest author in the past here on Yucalandia, Lic. Spencer McMullen offers foreigners some of the best information and legal services to the expat community in Mexico. Today, Lic. McMullen describes a new Aduana website … Continue reading

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Mexican Advances in Engineering

May 23, 2014 What’s your favorite? 20 Mexican Engineering Inventions *     *     *     * Feel free to copy while giving proper attribution: YucaLandia/Surviving Yucatan. © Steven M. Fry Read-on MacDuff . . .

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IRS Webinar on FBAR On-line e-Reporting of Foreign Financial Accounts

May 29, 2014 Questions about The IRS’s new online FBAR system? Check out: Internal Revenue Service Webinar on Reporting of Foreign Financial Accounts on the Electronic FBAR, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. For written information see: IRS Reminds Those with Foreign … Continue reading

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IRS – FATCA Reaches Out and Touches in Unexpected Ways

May 26, 2014 In an unexpected twist, many US citizens living abroad may be required to file W-9’s, even it they are FULLY EXEMPT from FATCA. US citizens living abroad with some foreign Bank accounts, some foreign brokerage accounts, and … Continue reading

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Ongoing Problems with PEMEX Gasoline

May 23, 2014 Has your Yucatecan car been running a little pooch-ey this past month? Magna gasoline has caused problems for many Merida cars this past month, as over 2,000 PROFECO complaints have been filed over Magna ruining fuel pumps … Continue reading

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10 Things Mexico Does Better

May 22, 2014 Fun stuff from around the web for those starved for news and features about Mexico: 10 things Mexico does better than anywhere else What’s your favorite? *     *     *     *     * … Continue reading

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New Tactics for Yucatan in the “Dengue Battle”

Updated May 21, 2014 The Diario de Yucatan chronicles the latest efforts by Yucatecan health authorities to combat Dengue:  Using Specialized Bacteria to Sterilize Mosquitoes. Nueva técnica para esterilizar al mosquito transmisor En junio se daría un paso clave para … Continue reading

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Backfire Effect

May 22, 2014 The world just keeps getting stranger: It turns out that educating US adults about factual errors in their beliefs does not work: “If someone held a contrary attitude, the correction not only didn’t work—it made the subject … Continue reading

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Important Update of News for Online Shoppers

May 21, 2014 Ebay (via NPR) just announced that our personal account information data has BEEN HACKED. Ebay is advising us to go change our Ebay passwords, immediately. http://www.ebay.com ~ http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyeBay&CurrentPage=MyeBayPersonalInfo&gbh=1&ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK ~ Your password change “option” is the 3’rd item … Continue reading

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News for Immigrants – from other Immigrants

May 21, 2014 USA is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants (far from our sight) quietly: ~ pick our food, ~ sew our clothes, ~ cut our meat, ~clean our offices, ~ build our homes, and ~ defend our nation. Republican … Continue reading

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Wealth, Productivity, and Job Creation Myths and Facts

May 18, 2014 How do we restore the balance? Since the 1982 “Conservative Revolution”, politicians have climbed into bed with big business magnates, creating a government that serves the rich and powerful. The rich previously took 40% of the profits … Continue reading

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Climate Change and Weird Weather News Update

May 15, 2014           … Republican’s personal opinions and their religiously-held ideologies on weather realities, are now especially poignant, as NASA scientists announce that the WAIS, a big ice cube that can all-alone raise world-wide ocean … Continue reading

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