by Jeanine Kitchel I recently read that middle class families in Mexico are having tiny transmitters placed under their skin so that satellites can locate them if they’re kidnapped.  According to a report, sales of the device have jumped 13 per cent this year after kidnappings rose 40 per cent from 2004 to 2007 in [...]

Mexico City. President Felipe Calderón signed the Law to Encourage Reading and Books at the official Los Pinos Residence this week. This law, he explained, will be a legal instrument, which, while not sufficient, will be crucial to supporting education, the dissemination of books, the habit of reading and the desire to learn. Accompanied by [...]

By Jeanine Kitchel Known for irresistible beaches, a party crowd and happy hour specials, Playa del Carmen also lays claim to its “Little Italy” section north of Avenida Consituyentes on Fifth Avenue. Five thousand Italians live in Playa, and with their arrival came a number of good Italian restaurants. For Italian food in the Riviera [...]

David Simmonds Airlines are cutting routes to Mexico (and elsewhere) and laying off employees in an attempt to avoid bankruptcy, as oil speculators and world demand has sent transportation costs soaring. The gas lines and shortages of the 1970′s should have been the canary-in-the-coal-mine warning that the Western world needed to find a different engine to propel [...]

David Simmonds One of the first things I counsel people about when they contact me about their desire to move to Mexico is that they need to make damn sure they know what they are getting in to. They usually know about the many benefits of living in a paradise for up to one-half the [...]

David Simmonds Working in Mexico is not easy for foreigners. Unless you are sponsored by a company based in Mexico you are prohibited from being employed as long as a Mexican can do the same job. Of course, there are exceptions. You can always find gringos selling condo timeshares in Cabo, PV and Cancun, and [...]

David Simmonds Back in January the U.S. feds announced that by summer they will begin distributing funds to Social Security recipients using prepaid debit cards instead of checks. They have chosen Dallas-based Comerica Bank to be the card issuer, making one wonder what kind of grease that took for them to get the gig. The [...]