By Jeanine Lee Kitchel I feel like I’m becoming a connoisseur of calamities. And believe me, I’m not happy about it. In 1989, I lived through the Loma Prieta quake disaster (the earthquake that stopped the World Series) and in 2005 Wilma came calling at our door, literally. We live on the beach in Puerto [...]

MP News Staff Baton down the hatches… looks like weather is going to hit the Gulf of Mexico. According to Reuters – “Hurricane Dean, which could strengthen into a Category 4 hurricane over the next two days, pounded the eastern Caribbean islands of Martinique and Dominica as it churned into the Caribbean Sea. And next [...]

MP News Staff  Land’s End, at the tip of the Baja California peninsula at Cabo San Lucas is now one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations. What was a small fishing village 30 years ago has morphed into a builder’s paradise, with hammers swinging everywhere. The most prized piece of real estate has always been where the [...]

MP News Staff PR NEWSWIRE – Frontier Airlines today announced it will add new flights to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with non- stop service from both Sacramento (SMF) and San Jose (SJC), Calif. Tickets for the new routes are on sale now at FrontierAirlines.com. The new Sacramento route, which will operate four days per week starting [...]

For the first time in Mexico, on September 6-9, the paradise beach destination of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo will be stage for the first International Suring Tournament. The tournament is organized by the Surfing Latin-American Association (ALAS, for its acronym in Spanish), which was founded in 2001 in Lima, Peru, for the purpose of developing and fostering the [...]

A FIVE-STAR TRAILER PARK The paradise destination of Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo now offers its visitors a first-class trailer park, located within the “Real Ixtapa” development in Playa Linda, Ixtapa. The development is over 41,347 square yards, of which, 11, 073 square yards are totally paved for the benefit of trailer drivers (RV’s and campers). Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo’s modern trailer [...]

MP News Staff  When Spaniard explorer/conqueror Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519 the Aztecs were the dominant society in the land, ruled by Montezuma in the region that is now Mexico City. However, the previous Aztec ruler, the uncle of Montezuma, was Emperor Ahuizotl, who is believed to had died in 1502. Now, over 500 years [...]