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It’s a great time to visit México

Posted on 22 January 2010

… just ask the New York Times! Travel writer Brooke Barnes wrote a piece for the January 24, 2010 issue that is titled 36 Hours in Mexico City. The article touches on some of my favorite places in the Big Manzana. Article is here.

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Now is a great time to visit México

Posted on 09 September 2009

The San Francisco Gate published a piece titled Swine flu fallout: Great deals on Mexico trips. The article includes individual deals in Mazatlán, Los Cabos and the Riviera Maya, and a lot of information about how the country is working to reassure visitors. One of the most important quotes from the article is:

Mexico’s ultimate hurdle is not room rates, flu or even drug violence, but perception. You’re three times as likely to contract H1N1 flu in the United States as in Mexico. And the drug war’s front lines still occupy just five of the country’s 2,400 counties; most Americans caught in the fray were in the border towns of Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez and Nuevo Laredo. Read more here.

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Why Invest in Mexico?

Posted on 19 July 2009

A writer/blogger for Conde Nast Traveller writes about why it makes so much sense to invest in (and live in) Mexico, despite the news about the drug war, the swine flu and whatever else comes next. http://jeffmusto.com/blog/the-new-global-economic-reality/

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Maybe It Wasn’t Mexico’s Fault

Posted on 24 June 2009
Tags: mexico, swine flu

In today’s New York Times, the reporter says there is evidence it didn’t start in Mexico at all. So just forget everything you’ve read over the last few months…

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How To Be A Good Neighbor

Posted on 10 June 2009

Andrés Martinez, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, wrote an opinion piece titled Be Neighborly, Go to Mexico for the Los Angeles Times today.

Your neighbor needs your help. Do you have it within you to lend a hand? Will you book yourself a week on the beach in Cabo or Puerto Vallarta, or explore Mexico City or one of the colonial cities in the heart of Mexico? You know, for the common good. This has been a banner decade for empathy tourism — many Americans flocking to New York after 9/11 and to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did so with a sense of public service. Mexico now needs a similar surge. Read More…

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War Without Borders

Posted on 04 June 2009
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The New York Times video entitled War Without Borders – Fueling Mexico’s Drug Trade is an eye opener for anyone looking for a balanced take on what fuels the drug trade, where the guns used in Mexico come from, and what is being done and needs to be done on both sides of the border. A Mexican official says in the video that the person in the US who is a casual marijuana user doesn’t even think for a moment that their use is helping maintain the Mexican cartels. But it is. Watch this 9 minute video, it will explain a lot.

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“The Crisis Came. Mexico Didn’t Fail. Surprised?”

Posted on 18 May 2009

A few days ago the New York Times ran this very realistic appraisal by Larry Rohter of Mexico today as compared to Mexico twenty years ago. Rohter was NYT Mexico City bureau chief from 1986 – 1990.

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Linda Ellerbee – “One Journalist’s View”

Posted on 08 May 2009

Journalist Linda Ellerbee wrote about her love of México in Puerto Vallarta’s Banderas News. Read the entire article here.

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Calderón Fights Organized Crime

Posted on 27 April 2009

The Washington Post reports on the Mexican government’s taming of Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, TX, using Mexican military forces. Incidentally, I have decided that “organized crime” is less evocative, and thus, more appropriate than are the loaded terms of “drug gangs” or “cartels” in describing those in involved in drug and human trafficking in Mexico, or elsewhere for that matter. Those involved are criminals and they work within organizations, just as did the gangs which operated in Chicago and other cities during the prohibition years in the USA.

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The Truth Straight From Texas

Posted on 19 April 2009

CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his ilk roll into El Paso and tell the world how horrible it all is. Here’s the straight scoop from a reporter for the Texas Observer. As Melissa del Bosque puts it, all those fences and guns look sexy on television but she and her fellow El Pasoans have to live with all of that…

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The San Francisco Gate published a piece titled Swine flu fallout: Great deals on Mexico trips. The article includes individual deals in Mazatlán, Los Cabos and the Riviera Maya, and a lot of information about how the country is working to reassure visitors. One of the most important quotes from the article is:

Mexico’s ultimate hurdle is not room rates, flu or even drug violence, but perception. You’re three times as likely to contract H1N1 flu in the United States as in Mexico. And the drug war’s front lines still occupy just five of the country’s 2,400 counties; most Americans caught in the fray were in the border towns of Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez and Nuevo Laredo. Read more here.

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A writer/blogger for Conde Nast Traveller writes about why it makes so much sense to invest in (and live in) Mexico, despite the news about the drug war, the swine flu and whatever else comes next. http://jeffmusto.com/blog/the-new-global-economic-reality/

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