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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

May 8, 2014 I keep chiding myself to keep a camera at hand, battery charged, … Why? How many times in your life have you gone to sit on the potty, to find a brilliant iridescent green iguana leaping (terrified) … Continue reading →

April 2014 Emailed News from a Friend: Police Release Burglary Codigos: Have You Seen Symbols on Your House? On December 2013, the president of the State Judicial Council, Marco Celis Quintal , stated that burglary is an offense that causes … Continue reading →

Abril, 2014                 … Is it this way?                 or … Is it this way?           Go West (?)   young man… … Continue reading →

March 23, 2014 What do chemists think about as they drift off to sleep… Merida’s heat has been building, and lately our upstairs bedroom/solarium has been getting hotter every night.    March in Merida generally kick’s-off the annual HOT season here, … Continue reading →

March 22, 2014 As we troll internet forums across Mexico, interesting topics pop up. Apparently, there is a documentary film making the rounds reporting Monsanto’s adventures in GMO agricultural products and Monsanto’s abusive practices of suing neighboring farmers when Monsanto’s … Continue reading →

March 19, 2014 Good economic news continues to roll in for the future of Mexico’s economy. After financial experts’ 2013 broad projections of Mexico as a top choice for personal investing for the next few years, Goldman Sachs and Nomura … Continue reading →

March 13, 2014 RealtyTrac reported that US foreclosure filings fell 27% year-over-year in February to a new seven-year low. U.S. Foreclosure Activity Decreases to Lowest Level in More Than 7 Years Why should we care? As we described back in … Continue reading →

Having issues or questions about CURP ‘s ?   Here’s a useful link. Pasos a seguir para obtener o corregir tu CURP “Para mayor información comunicarse al Centro de Atención y de Servicios RENAPO al teléfono 01 800 911 11 11 … Continue reading →

It is that time of year again. The time of year when our banks, employers, mutual fund companies send us notices of our income from last year (2013), which allows us to pay our annual tribute to the State and … Continue reading →

Feb. 27, 2014 I stopped by the CFE office on Reforma and Avenida Colon yesterday to check our balance on our apartments and noticed something new: The CFE “Automatic Teller” machine has a new option in its menu for accessing … Continue reading →

Feb. 14, 2014: Lic. Spencer McMullin, a well respected Mexican attorney who serves expat community needs, has reported the following warning for owners of timeshare properties in Mexico: Timeshare Real Estate Scams are Victimizing Owners of Mexican Timeshare Properties “Multiple … Continue reading →