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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By SHERRY SPITSNAUGLE Motorcycles gunned their engines on a busy street of Todos Santos, in Mexico’s coastal state of Baja California Sur, as I bit into a juicy pork taco smothered in tomatillo, followed by a healthy swig of icy Pacifico beer. A friend and I sat at a cardboard table on the small patio of Tacos Isaac, just yards
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Back in 1776, John Adams, second president of the United States and co-drafter, along with Thomas Jefferson, of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, predicted that the momentous signing of that magna carta would be celebrated for generations to come “from this time forward forevermore.” Indeed, 246 years later, Adams’ words ring as true today as they did
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By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE When you think of popular retirement communities for foreigners in Mexico, what cities come to mind? Lake Chapala, outside of Guadalajara? San Miguel de Allende with its six-to-one ratio for women to men over 60? The perfect weather of Cuernavaca? Surprisingly, these cities did not even make it to the list. Of 15 cities compared
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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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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS … The American Benevolent Society and Christ Church Parish hosted a lavish Thanksgiving luncheon on Thursday, Nov. 28…
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XINHUA … Mexico’s government is preparing to help its nationals leave Bolivia if they so wish…
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Hotdogs, sloppy joes and tender roast beef sandwiches made for a tasty community U.S. Independence Day celebration on Thursday, July 4, when the American Benevolent Society (ABS) hosted its last major event inside its soon-to-be-former offices at Union Church in Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec. Nearly 100 people showed up for the sit-down lunch of
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS U.S. citizens in Mexico and around the world celebrate their nation’s independence on Thursday, July 4, with picnics and gatherings, hamburgers and tacos. The United States declared its independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, but it did not earn its sovereignty until seven years later, after a long and difficult Revolutionary War. As a rule,
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The American Benevolent Society (ABS) hosted its annual Thanksgiving Day luncheon at Christ Church Anglican-Episcopal Parish in Mexico City’s Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, on Thursday, Nov 22, with turkey, dressing and all the trimmings. Nearly 100 people attended the lavish, sit-down feast, which began with an assortment of cream cheese and jalapeno chile jam and coriander mousse canapés
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