Interactive Map of Yucatán, Mexico The state of Yucatán is part of the Yucatán Peninsula region, along with Campeche and Quintana Roo. This region is the ancestral home of the Maya. Yucatán state has an area of 39,612 square kilometers and a population of 1,945,840 (2010 estimate). The state’s capital city is Mérida, the “white […]
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Clickable interactive map of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: Cancun, Merida, Chetumal, Cozumel
Continue ReadingJohn G. Gladstein is currently Instructor of Modern Language at Amarillo College located in Amarillo, Texas. He has taught foreign language and Latin American Culture for twenty-four years in institutions of higher learning, including the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the University of Louisville and the University of Texas Permian Basin. He has been recognized […]
Continue ReadingDiodora Bucur is a foreign correspondent whose career consists of stints with news organizations in both Canada and Mexico, including CBC News and the Canadian Press as well and Mexico City dailies The News and the now defunct The Herald Mexico. Assignments of note include the International EcoHealth Forum in Merida in 2008 and the […]
Continue ReadingPosted by Mike Otoole on August 05, 1997: Whenever I’m travelling in Mexico and I arrive in a new town, the first thing I want to see is la plaza de armas, the heart of almost every Mexican village, town or city. The way it is laid out, maintained and used tell me more in […]
Continue ReadingZONA LATINA MEXICO RADIO-TV SECRETARIA DE COMUNICACIONES Y TRANSPORTES OTHER WEBSITES STATION PLAYLIST Radio aficionados have turned to the Internet to tune in to favorite stations across the country and across the globe. Those interested in listening to live broadcasts of Mexican radio can turn down the receiver and preset URLs instead of AM or […]
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beatricemor, Nov 29, 2007, We bought into the El Cerrillo Barrio in San Cristóbal de Las Casas because it was near the indigenous market, the Santo Domingo convent and the town´s historic center. A wonderful and ancient barrio if rather poor and ratty in a charming way. Someone I know was telling a tale about […]
Continue ReadingFather Alonso Ponce and Friar Antonio de Ciudad Real were probably Mexico’s first ever tourists. Father Alonso Ponce de León arrived in Veracruz in September 1584 and spent the next five years traveling to every corner of New Spain as Visitor of the Franciscan Provinces. In this time, he visited all 166 Franciscan monasteries in […]
Continue ReadingMexico Notes “Pedro” stands in my parent’s house, a permanent fixture. He is a concrete, life-size Mexican man, in a loose, dirty shirt and dark, baggy trousers held up with a piece of rope. He leans against a light post, a brown beer bottle in one hand, his other arm around the post. His soiled […]
Continue ReadingWhen I tell my media friends that I am writing a book called “The Real Mexico”, they invariably act a bit dumbfounded and frequently ask how I can possibly know anything about the real Mexico if I’ve lived in Cancun since 1983, as if this resort city on the Mexican Caribbean were located in Brooklyn. […]
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