The proper etiquette of dressing for social functions in Mexico is good to know if you want to be well received by others in the community.  This article discusses the social norms regarding dress code when attending social events in Mexico.
When you attend a cocktail party in the US you dress appropriately. It’s the [...]

Whether you live in Mexico or vacation in the country on a regular basis, if you’ve begun to integrate into the local community eventually you’ll be asked to be a padrino or madrina (godparent) to an ahijado or ahijada (godchild). So you’d better familiarize yourself with “compadrazgo”, or co-godparenthood. In a nutshell, it’s a [...]

It took 8 years for my wife and I to find the right piece of land in the ideal location in Oaxaca, obtain good title, decide upon an architect/project manager, and commence and complete construction. Throughout the process the learning curve was significant, as were the frustrations and the simultaneous fits of disillusionment and excitement.  [...]

Give one example of an oxymoron. You guessed it. But just when you think you’re comfortable driving in Oaxaca, Mexico, with no hard-fast or enforced regulations, there you are, transito (a traffic cop) waving you over, giving you a ticket, removing your license plate, or towing your vehicle. Watching and learning from local drivers provides [...]

Transporting your worldly possessions into Mexico is both an art and a science, even more so if you intend to do so on your own … truck and all. The task then also becomes a challenge and an adventure. No matter what the Canadian or American Consul in your Mexican destination advises, and regardless of [...]

Nancy Dardarian and her husband Paul Pattee moved to Mazatlán, Mexico in September 2007.  Paul retired in August of 2007 but Nancy would still need to work if they stayed in the US. Only having been married for 10 years, they wanted a lifestyle that would allow them to spend more time together. Nancy also [...]

One often assumes that the years added to your life by leading a much more stress-free existence in Mexico, will be lost by the inferior health care system to which you will be exposed, subjected and restricted. This, then, is an assessment of the extent to which such presuppositions are accurate, together with information and [...]

Mexican business on a national level relies on a perversion of an old adage, that becomes: “Two is a duopoly, three just ain’t happening.” The broadcast media sector is no exception, and, even though the youngest of the bitter public rivalries played out on the commercial patio of Mexican everyday life, probably the most well-known. [...]

Mexico, having not withstood an industrial revolution or Modern era, is an environment of unregulated marketing and mass media and popular cultures created by being catapulted into a stage of postmodernity (or ‘late capitalism’) due to its geographical location as the poor nearest neighbor to a world superpower.
Walking the streets of any Mexican settlement, from [...]

It has been well documented that Mexico’s violent war on drugs that has claimed thousands of lives. According to the Houston Chronicle, there have been 5,000 gang related deaths in Mexico in the past 21 months since President Calderon started his “crackdown” on drug gangs. Some of the stories of the police battling the drug [...]