Navigating Mexico: Quirky Laws
In Puebla, a city steeped in history, there exists a rather unusual law that prohibits the sale of cold cuts on Mondays
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It’s Chiles en Nogada Season, Get Thee to La 3ra Ronda!
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS It’s August, already, and it seems that the last easy-breezy days of summer are quickly slipping away. Soon, vacations will be over and schools will reopen (which means much worse traffic), and all those lazy afternoons of sitting around the pool or sipping coffee with friends at your favorite café will come to an end, and you
Read moreNavigating Mexico: A Matter of Trust
By JUAN DE JESÚS BREENE PUERTO VALLARTA, Jalisco — Who do most Mexicans trust? It’s doubtful that if you threw the question out to a random group of Mexicans that anyone would even guess the correct answer. But a fascinating study with a significantly large sample group is conducted every eight to 10 years by a nonsectarian organization called the
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