By Jeanine Lee Kitchel Novedades/Cancun’s Saturday headline was disturbing. In encapsulated question marks, it read: Are Police Behind The Executions? The executions, of course, being those of the (now) four people linked to smuggling allegations whose bodies were found this week in Cancun. The last three victims, all Mexican, were found Friday by following red [...]

MP News Staff Mexican multi-billionaire, Carlos Slim, has surpassed Bill Gates as the world’s richest man, according to some sources who track such things (Forbes isn’t in agreement). Slim, the son of Lebanese parents who immigrated to Mexico where Carlos was born in 1940, controls a long list of companies that include America Movil, Telemex, [...]

By David Simmonds  I have been reading the excellent book “Brothers…The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years“, by David Talbot, the founder of Salon. In it I am reminded of how our insane policy with Cuba has evolved, while actually changing little regardless of which political party is in power. I highly recommend the book to [...]

MP News Staff  There was some good news today for all of the people who love the wild and desolate aura that is Baja California (not including Los Cabos). There has been a huge undertaking of a plan to build a mega-port in Punta Colonet, about 130 miles south of Tijuana on the Pacific Coast. [...]

By David Simmonds  That the internet has changed the way that we get our news is well documented. Major media sources are all in decline as people young and old turn to their computers to find out what’s happening in the world. The pathetic manner in which the lapdog mainstream, corporate media has performed for the past several years has [...]

David Simmonds  One thing I know for sure, whenever there is a lot of cash floating around, the scammers will be angling for a piece of your money. This is true in New York, Bejing and, yes, Mexico. The most notorious and well-publicized example was in the 1980’s at Punta Banda, on the beach a few [...]

By: Lisa Coleman If you consider Tijuana a Mexican experience… think again. It’s a border town plain and simple, with all the crime and mess that goes along with it. However, to reach the new luxury developments and shiney beach communitites to the south, you have to pass through. The corrupt police know that too. The five [...]