Tag Archives: Condesa

Morelos State Attorney Accused of Covering up Femicide

By KELIN DILLON On Monday, Nov. 7, Mexican anti-corruption officials and Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum accused the Morelos Attorney General’s Office of covering up the murder of 27-year-old Ariadna López, whose lifeless body was found on a highway in Morelos last week. López reportedly disappeared from the Mexican capital’s trendy Condesa neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 30 after

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Mexico City Experiences Rapid Influx of Foreign Remote Workers

By KELIN DILLON While Mexico City (CDMX) and the nearby Mexican cities of Cuernavaca and San Miguel de Allende have long been known for their flourishing expat communities, economic hardships brought forth by the covid-19 pandemic has prompted a new influx of foreigners into the Mexico City metropolitan area who look to match their high-income remote jobs with Mexico’s low

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Long-Stay Hotels Get an Upgrade in Mexico

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Up until just recently, the idea of long-stay hotels in Mexico was relatively alien. If you were planning a trip of a week or more, you could either rent a fleabag with so-so accommodations and dubious amenities such as an only-works-once-in-a-while washing machine or not-very-reliable internet service, or pay full-fair for a standard hotel room that might

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Nomadic Work-from-Homers Raising Rental Prices in Mexico

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Thanks to international work-from-homers, about 3 million of whom have chosen Mexico as their remote office destination-of-choice since the outbreak of the global covid-19 pandemic, the cost of rents have grown exponentially in some parts of the country. In Mexico City alone, rents have increased by as much as 20 percent in some areas,

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Navigating Mexico: A Foreign Accounting

By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE  PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — If you walk down some streets in Mexico City’s trendy neighborhoods like Polanco, Condesa or Juárez, you might assume the fifth-largest city in the world is full of foreigners from listening to the English, Chinese and host of other languages spoken. In some restaurants, patrons sometimes have to request a menu

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