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- Some of the Issues that Arise When You Choose to Fire a Mexican Domestic Worker
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Some of the Issues that Arise When You Choose to Fire a Mexican Domestic Worker
There are a number of payments (Finiquito, Aguinaldo & Vacation pay, plus several others) owed when you fire a housekeeper or gardener domestic worker in Mexico. It can be helpful to have some sense of the legal terminologies used, before … Continue reading
Mexico’s Guardia Nacional Given New Powers in Traffic Stops on National Highways
May 28, 2026 Under Mexico’s new traffic laws, Mexico’s National Guard are now the top-cops on Federal highways, and they are now allowed to FINE and even arrest drivers and passengers on Federal Highways. By official decree, the National Guard … Continue reading
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2026 Atlantic Storm Forecasts are IN
May 21, 2026 We’re moving closer to the JUNE 1, 2026 kickoff of Hurricane Season, so, it’s worth a look at the current forecasts. Historical Top Performing Colorado State University’s Atmospheric Sciences Dept Summary: “2026 Forecast Summary”“We anticipate that the … Continue reading
Merida’s Worst UV Days of 2026 Are Here
Mau 20, 2026 drpntosSoe5al8gm81861f3mgh7lmll65g240899i19l1hmg743hgh1c0419 · Shared with Your friends The Days When the Shadows disappear from our Light Poles & Vertical Walls:** We’re headed into our worst – hottest week(s) of days on Merida, Yucatan’s Centro streets. For the next 11 … Continue reading
Upcoming 2026 Solar Events
March 19, 2026 2026’s Spring Equinox happens a bit earlier this year, tomorrow (3/20/2026) at 8:46 AM local time in Merida. Chichen Itza is scheduled to be open for viewing of the famous snake descending on El Castillo’s stairway, (but … Continue reading
Whale Songs … So much more than we expected.
March 7, 2026 Have you ever wondered just what’s really going on off-shore … just beneath the waves? The international CETI program (Cetacean Translation Initiative)** … as a collaboration between Swedish scientists with their UC Berkeley colleagues ave been doing … Continue reading
Visiting Chichen Itza: Things that hot sweaty tourists often miss …
March 4, 2026 ~Update~ :Re What to Look for … when visiting Maya ruins: Are things worth pondering … versus just wandering past yet another ancient ruined Maya building? Can old fotos sometimes reveal a lot? Things that hot-sweaty wandering-tourists … Continue reading
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Visiting Merida: To drive or not to drive …
Feb. 16, 2026Re Driving in Merida (for visitors): To drive, or not to drive:To LYFT, DiDi, Uber … or … to take your life into your own hands …😉 There are reasonably regular posts on FB forums here by visitors, … Continue reading
Change gonna come … Tren Maya news
Dec. 30, 2024 Tren Maya Reminders … & Updates Fresh questions keep coming up about the Tren Maya … schedules … and delays … Remember the Current Factual Contexts: As they keep adding new trains … the schedules change … Continue reading
“How to”/Fix-it Tropical Style
Tropical views on fixing & maintaining things. Continue reading
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Tagged appliance, appliance repair, auto, car, DIY, electrical, electronics, fix stuff, home repair, How to, Mexico, plumbing, repair, sapo, saro, scale, toad, toilet, toilet flush valve, toilet valve
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Mexico Driving: What would you do?
A few oddities of driving in Merida, Yucatan. Continue reading
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Tagged driving, driving in Mexico, living in Yucatan, Merida Mexico, Mexico, stop light, stop sign, visiting Yucatan, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Driving in Mexico (cruising?)
Driving in Mexico is like a prolonged game of whack-a-mole.
To maneje or not to maneje, yeah, that’s the question.
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Dengue Fact Sheet
Fact Sheet for recognizing and treating Dengue fever and strategies for breaking the Dengue transmission cycle. Continue reading
A Tale of Three Families: Dengue in Cuba and Mexico
A fractured fairy tale description of Dengue Transmission, the secret lives of Dengue’s Mosquitoes, and How not to Get Dengue. Continue reading
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Tagged A. ae., Aedes, Aedes Aegypti, Caribbean, CDC, Cuba, dengue, dengue fever, Dengue transmission, Dengue Virus, DHF, Mexico, WHO
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Importing & Driving a Car in Mexico
Over the years, there have been tons of repeated questions about driving cars into Mexico under Tourist Visas, FM2’s, FM3’s, (and soon FMM’s). Here’s a Yucalandian view: . . . Happy Trails! Continue reading
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Dengue Fever Information: What to Do?
Dengue is the most rapidly spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world. In the last 50 years, incidence has increased 30-fold with increasing geographic expansion to new countries and, in the present decade, from urban to rural settings …. Dengue: … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, dengue, Dengue fact, Dengue Facts, dengue fever, Dengue Fever Treatment, Dengue in the tropics, Dengue Information, DHF, Information, Mexico, visiting Yucatan, WHO, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Getting Stopped by the Mexican Police
“Dame mi multa, por favor.” (Please give me my ticket.) In the world of occasionally Kafkaesque road-side Mexican police stops, these thoughts are offered as a reminders of what’s really important in life: remain calm, cool, & collected, and it … Continue reading
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Tagged driving in Mexico, Merida, mexican police, Mexico, visiting Yucatan, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Emergency Numbers for Merida, Yucatan
Emergency Numbers for Merida, Yucatan: Put ’em in your cell phone &/or print before coming? Continue reading
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Tagged Ambulance Numbers, electric company numbers, Electric Company phone number, Emergency Number, emergency numbers, emergency phone number, emergency phone numbers, ER numbers, Fire Department Phone Numbers, Hospital Phone Numbers, Merida, Mexico, Police Phone Numbers, visiting Yucatan, water company phone number, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Nope, It’s Not Another Blog on “My Life in Mexico”
Living in Yucatan Mexico and smoothing out the rough edges. Continue reading
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Tagged dengue, dengue fever, DHF, driving, fm2, fmm, how do I, How to, Merida, Mexico, mosquitoes, moving to Mexico, vacation, visa, visiting Yucatan, yucalandia, Yucatan, Yucatan Mexico
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Surviving Yucatan 