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Perhaps it’s a case of life imitating bad art. In this year’s mirthless Hollywood comedy Couples Retreat: Return to Eden, eight Americans attempt to recharge their foundering marriages by undergoing counseling on a tropical island. At about the same...
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After a 23 day hospitalization, Mexico’s oldest woman and quite possibly the oldest women in the world has taken her last breath; she was 119.
The spokesman for...
made popular Nov 21 2009
Just what we needed. Thanks to Google Street View, a new tool in Google maps, Mexicans and the entire world can see life as we, here in Mexico, know it.
Street View, a...
made popular Nov 21 2009
The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
made popular Nov 19 2009
The lie-detector team brought in by Mexico’s top cop was supposed to help clean up the country’s long-troubled police. There was just one problem: Most of...
made popular Nov 18 2009
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman.
The...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Gunmen shoot a priest and two seminary students in the back. Federal police storm a Mass to capture a suspected drug kingpin. Priests pray with the families of murdered...
made popular Nov 14 2009
Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he...
made popular Nov 13 2009
In response to the business and tourism sector of Ciudad Juarez and their plea for assistance, the United Nations, via two separate representatives, has announced it...
made popular Nov 13 2009
The daily bloodshed and horrors: kidnappings, mutilations, and extortions of Ciudad Juarez discriminates against no one, everyone is a target and all are victims.
In...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
It is the latest move...
made popular Nov 12 2009
Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities...
made popular Nov 11 2009
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico - In the story making the rounds here in Mexico’s drug capital, the setting is a beauty parlor. A woman with wealth obtained...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Mexico’s SEDENA, The National Secretary of Defense, recently announced the seizure of a quarter ton of Opium in the hills of Tamborillo, in Guadalupe y Calvo...
made popular Nov 10 2009
Dear Mr. Carlos Slim Helu,
Now that I finally have my phone and internet back I should probably apologize for unleashing the wrath and hunting/stalking skills of my...
made popular Nov 9 2009
As Mauricio Fernandez Garza took the stage to be sworn in for the second time as the mayor of one of Latin America’s most wealthiest communities a broad smile...
made popular Nov 9 2009
Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City,...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Mexico set a new high in extraditing criminal suspects to the U.S. on Sunday, reaching a total of 100 so far this year in what the U.S. Embassy called a “record...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Have you any idea why we are searching your vehicle? Do you know why your American visa has been canceled? Do you understand why you’re being fined $15,264 U.S....
made popular Nov 4 2009
The number of minors swept up in Mexico’s drug wars — as killers and victims — is soaring, with U.S. and Mexican officials warning that a toxic...
made popular Nov 3 2009
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The Tourism Minister, Mohammed Boussaid, said to Morocco’s national TV channel that the number of tourists visiting Morocco has increased 5% in the year to...
made popular Oct 26 2009
As they say: Talking, or typing in this case, is much easier than experiencing or seeing. What the writer, who seems to have so much love for Lebanon due to his ...
made popular Oct 13 2009
As noticed in many articles, Lebanon was fought by a writer for reasons I don’t understand, probably he doesn’t either. The real truth of Lebanon started...
made popular Oct 8 2009
In the best traditions of “Wolf Creek”, a movie inspired with unsolved criminal mystery of the sixties, a Northern Territory tourist destination once again...
made popular Oct 1 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana thrives on tourism related industries. Swamp and Plantation tours, night clubs, restaurants, coffee shops, trinket stores, Native American and...
made popular Sep 26 2009
And average Aussies-WHO?
According to the latest research,
“With a middle-class background and an internet connection, the Australian man is keen to explore travel...
made popular Sep 14 2009
Lebanon, with its black and white, its peace and war, and its good and bad, was, is and will always be counted as one of the best nations in the world. We had all kinds...
made popular Aug 28 2009
North Korea is to re-open its border with the South after a nine-month self-imposed blockade.
The move, which came after talks between ruler Kim Jong-il and the head...
made popular Aug 18 2009
Europe’s Mediterranean countries are feeling the economic crisis this summer as holiday destinations such as Greece, Portugal and Spain stagger through one of the...
made popular Aug 7 2009
During the world’s worst recession and credit crunch since the Great Depression, many families are scaling back on luxuries such as traveling aboard....
made popular Aug 7 2009
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The first ever W Hotels has opened up in the nation’s capital recently. The W brand is one of edgy, modern and sexy style which makes it rather...
made popular Jul 22 2009
Ethiopia’s Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with...
made popular Jul 6 2009
While vacationing in Pisa earlier this summer, a roommate of mine at the hostel I was staying in in Rome recommended at I spend a day in Cinque Terre.
Accessible by a...
made popular Jun 30 2009
Recently, officials in the tiny Persian Gulf, Arab monarchy of Bahrain stated that they intended to clamp down on the “excesses” of foreign tourists....
made popular Jun 20 2009
One of the prevailing problems of modern Tunisia is the continuously high unemployment rate. The official rate is 14%, but unofficially it may be higher. Half of...
made popular May 7 2009
In this age of globalization, as the world is fast becoming a global village, tourism has gained a new dimension with tourists in sizeable numbers flocking to visit...
made popular Apr 16 2009
There are many gems in the Mediterreanean nation of Tunisia that are often - and this is a blessing - overlooked by package-booked tourists. La Goulette is one of those...
made popular Mar 26 2009
It is a tragedy when any person, be it man, woman, or child dies, especially in a foreign country, but we’re not here to talk about just any man, woman, or child...
made popular Mar 9 2009
Al Hussein Mosque is a beautiful mosque, which among Egyptians, is con-notated with peace, beauty, and blessings. It stands just outside the Khan El Khalili bazar,...
made popular Feb 25 2009
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Tourists, mostly from Mexico City, pack the Caletilla beach in Acapulco, Mexico Friday May, 1, 2009. Scared with swine flu contagion, the Mayor of this resort city is telling tourists from Mexico City to go home.
