Navigating Mexico: The Cultural Trek
Like all large cities, CDMX has the hop-on-hop-off open tour buses
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Navigating Mexico: Article 33
Mexicans and foreigners in Mexico alike love to make reference to the country’s Article 33, a clause in the constitution that prohibits non-Mexicans from being involved in internal national affair
Read moreNavigating Mexico: The Longest 48 Hours in Your Life
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE I’ve heard it asked time and time again: What if I am arrested in Mexico? Myths and urban legends abound in Mexico surrounding the ease with which foreigners are arrested, for all kinds of offenses, from drugs to public intoxication. Nothing is further from the truth. Foreigners are rarely arrested in Mexico. There is definitely
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Cashing in on IMSS Benefits while Living Abroad
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE Lots of foreigners have worked in Mexico long enough to have contributed to a Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) pension. In Mexico, accreditation is calculated in terms of weeks worked, 500, if you started to work anytime before 1997, when the law was changed to require more weeks from younger generations. So if you worked
Read moreMexico 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
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Time for a New Kind of Visa?
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE They have been called covid foreigners, gentrification agents, traveling professionals and freelancers. These digital nomads have discovered Mexico and are here to stay, at least for now. Social scientist Olga Hannonen, from the University of Eastern Finland, defines these nomads as those “who work while traveling and travel while working. “Digital nomadism is driven by
Read moreNavigating Mexico: Can a Foreigner Own Real Estate in Mexico?
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE The simple answer is to the above question is: Yes. Honestly, I am actually getting tired of answering this question now that digital nomads have discovered Mexico. So many of these international work-from-homers have moved here, that some have decided to stay, becoming themselves owners, no longer wanting to pay rent. Many sources have reported
Read moreNavigating 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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