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Tijuana club scene revs up as drug-war fears ease
10 May 10 02:03 PM
Several months after the capture of cartel boss Teodoro Garcia Simental, this Mexico city is looking more like its old, vibrant self. A couple strikes a fanciful pose at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Violent crime is down in the Mexican border city since Read More...
Follow the Money: Why the U.S. Mainstream Media has Mexico Under Seige
23 April 10 10:47 AM
THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMIC REALITY by Charles Simpson, Mexinvestnow.com First: A reality check on Mexico Mexico is in a unique position to reap many of the benefits of the decline of the US economy. In order to not violate NAFTA and other agreements the Read More...
Miami Herald/Andres Oppenheimer article: Mexico's big hope: get 5 million U.S. retirees
19 April 10 12:10 PM
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is silently working on proposals aimed at drawing millions of U.S. retirees to this country, which could eventually lead to the most ambitious U.S.-Mexican project since the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Read More...
Mexico may become a major 'Medical Tourism' Destination
03 February 10 02:09 PM
By Kent Paterson Carefully observing the changing demographics of US society, Mexico's federal government is wagering that the graying of Gringolandia will give a strong impulse to medical tourism. "A million baby boomers, as they are called Read More...
New Baja Tourist Police Force
21 January 10 01:02 PM
From Ron Raposa SAN DIEGO — Mexican cities south of the California border on Friday marked the launch of the new Metropolitan Tourist Police in an effort to regain the confidence of Americans looking for lobster dinners, cheap margaritas and pristine Read More...
Weekly Fishing Column: Punta Colonet well worth trip to Baja
01 December 09 01:55 PM
The Daily Breeze By Phil Friedman, Correspondent Punta Colonet is located 120 miles south of the Mexican border in Tijuana. The drive there takes you through some of the most picturesque geography of northern Baja California. You will pass through Tijuana, Read More...
BRING YOUR MEDICARE TO MEXICO
18 November 09 03:04 PM
Suzan Haskins Latin America Editor, International Living Which foreign country will be the first in which Americans can use Medicare and Medicaid benefits? Mexico, of course. It just makes sense. Mexico is right next door to the largest market of health Read More...
Weekly Fishing Column: Mexico is safer than you think
03 July 09 01:20 PM
<strong>By Phil Friedman, Correspondent</strong> Mexico has been reduced to a single, small, geographical piece of this earth. If there is a murder in Michoacan, then the presumption of the 24-hour news cycle has been that it is too dangerous Read More...
Imagineering a solution for the Middle East
08 June 09 11:38 AM
David Lansing davidlansing.com Friday, June 5, 2009 You know how it is when you’ve got a couple of hours to kill at the airport. You read Vanity Fair , get your shoes shined, wander around the Duty Free shop pricing the Kahlua. And if you still Read More...
No place like Baja for Boulevard's Roeseler
08 June 09 10:29 AM
By Bill Center , Union-Tribune Staff Writer 2:00 a.m. June 4, 2009 Larry Roeseler has raced in Baja California for 37 years. He holds the record for overall wins in both the Baja 1000 and Baja 500. He has triumphed on two wheels as well as four. Few racers Read More...
One Journalist’s View
07 May 09 12:42 PM
By Linda Ellerbee Sometimes I’ve been called a maverick because I don’t always agree with my colleagues, but then, only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. The stream here is Mexico . You would have to be living on another planet Read More...
Is Mexico safer than New Orleans?
27 March 09 11:35 AM
Posted by Jason Clampet at 3/26/2009 I've been a big fan of Baja California ever since I lived in Los Angeles and began taking frequent trips to the peninsula. I'm not sure, though, how accurate my impressions of the place are now, considering Read More...
WAR ON THE DRUG CARTELS
26 March 09 11:34 AM
The War on Drugs! As we've seen in the many many new US news reports on the drugs and violence, there is a war going on. We've seen too that, like Mrs. Clinton mentioned repeatedly, as long as the US continues the drug demand, all countries in Read More...

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