Tag: Mexico

  • Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt

    Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt

    Mexicans are staying in Mexico.  “No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped,” Mr. Massey,  co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, recently said.  “For the first time in sixty years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative.” Even with border violence, economic…

  • A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    Writer and longtime San Miguel resident, John Scherber, was nice enough to allow us to republish the following excerpt that was originally published in San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. A Place in the Heart People visiting San Miguel often wonder what…

  • Exchanging Money In San Miguel de Allende

    Exchanging Money In San Miguel de Allende

    The easiest way to change your money into Pesos is with your ATM card. Using an ATM to get pesos gives you the best exchange rate and you don’t have to pay a high commission. If you opt to bring cash, there are a few places in the center that can do this service. (Make…

  • La Biblioteca Publica – San Miguel de Allende

    La Biblioteca Publica – San Miguel de Allende

    La Biblioteca Publica (Insurgentes # 25) can be considered the “heart” of community life in San Miguel. Enter the courtyard of the old convent turned tanning factory turned Biblioteca on any given day and you will see a flurry of activity. Under one arched passage way children’s art projects are underway. At iron tables in…

  • Pre-Columbian Pyramids – Cañada de la Virgen

    Pre-Columbian Pyramids – Cañada de la Virgen

    After a 13-year-long investigation, the archaeological zone, La Cañada de la Virgen, finally opened to the public in 2011. These ancient ceremonial ruins were once home to rulers and priests between 300 and 1050 A.D. They also served as a burial ground, (some remains are a thousand years older than the structures themselves) a precisely aligned…

  • The War On Mexico By Nathan Feuerberg

    The War On Mexico By Nathan Feuerberg

    The US Department of State released a warning on June 13, 2012 that all Americans should avoid travel to Mexico.  The warning came after seven members of the Zetas cartel were arrested in Oklahoma and New Mexico.  The Department of State said in the warning that a “Transnational Criminal Organization” might engage in “anti-American” violence.…

  • Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    Driving in Mexico: No Country For New Cars

    The thought of driving in México strikes a deadly fear into the hearts of many Americans and Canadians alike. Of course, they purchased Méxican car insurance when they crossed the border. Yet somehow this only made them feel legal, not safe. Now here’s the reality as they ease their $46,000 BMW onto the pavement and…

  • Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    Los Pueblos Mancomunados by Mittie Roger

    I arrived in Benito Juarez by foot. The second class bus dropped me at a fork in a curvy road with nothing in sight. Yet I was not only relieved, I was overjoyed. Nausea from the tightly-enclosed space, sharp turns, and lack of moving oxygen had nauseated me. When the bus driver yelled “Benito Juarez,”…

  • Mexican Immigration to US Comes to a Halt

    Mexicans are staying in Mexico.  “No one wants to hear it, but the flow has already stopped,” Mr. Massey,  co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton, recently said.  “For the first time in sixty years, the net traffic has gone to zero and is probably a little bit negative.” Even with border violence, economic…

  • A Place in the Heart By John Scherber

    Writer and longtime San Miguel resident, John Scherber, was nice enough to allow us to republish the following excerpt that was originally published in San Miguel de Allende: A Place in the Heart. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. A Place in the Heart People visiting San Miguel often wonder what…

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