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The Miami Herald’s Mexico edition, which included an eight-page pull-out local news section, stopped publishing at the end of May 2007, leaving Mexico for the time being without an English language daily. The Herald started publishing the local paper, in partnership with Mexico’s El Universal, just over four years ago. A visit to the online address of the Herald’s Mexico edit...

As of January 23, 2007 all passengers — including US Citizens — traveling by airplane to the United States need to carry a valid passport.

American Citizens who formerly used birth certificates and driver’s licenses for entry to the US may no longer use these forms of ID for travel into the US by air.

Permanent Residents of the US with a valid “green card” may c...

Personal titles are very popular in Mexico.

You make a phone call and ask to speak to someone, giving their first and last name. Having ascertained, by shrewdness or direct inquiry, that the caller isn’t a person of any great importance, the secretary informs you curtly that el licenciado, or la licenciada (or el ingeniero, or la arquitecta)  is out, on another line, o...

Tortillas are mainstay staple of the Mexican diet, along with beans, rice and various vegetables and spices.  So important is this foodstuff in Mexico that the price of corn (and thus tortillas) is a political hot-potato.  The last significant jump in prices — way back in January of 2007 — led the government to rustle-up a series of short-term and long-term measures in an eff...

On October 22, 2006, Mexico City set a new record for the number of simultaneous chess games played at one place at the same time, with more than 13,000 players hunched for hours over boards on the capital’s main square, the Zocalo. The record didn’t have far to travel, it was snatched from the city of Pachuca, about an hour’s drive away in the state of Hidalgo, wher...