XINHUA Mexico welcomed 31 million international tourists in 2021, representing an increase of 28.1 percent compared to the comparable number for 2020, according to preliminary estimates from the Tourism Secretariat. In a statement on Friday, Dec. 31, Mexican Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco said that the country’s tourism sector is undergoing a “strong recovery,” after noting that 24.2 million international travelers
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Tlalpujahua, a little mountain town on the northeast end of the Mexican state of Michoacán, just two and a half hours outside Mexico City, didn’t start off to be a Christmas village. In fact, when it was first founded by Spanish settlers back in 1560, it was primarily a mining town, home to the Dos Estrellas mine,
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In what has been deemed by critics as a serious blow to Mexican democracy and political transparency, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) issued a presidential decree late Monday, Nov, 22, declaring all his administration’s mega infrastructure projects as “matters of public interest and national security.” The decree, which was immediately met with opposition
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By VAYUNAMU BAWA After more than 19 grueling months of limited interchange along the U.S.-Mexico border, tourists and other nonessential travelers from Mexico will for the first time since March 2020 be allowed to cross into the United States starting on Monday, Nov. 8. But there are caveats. All persons 18 and over must present proof of full covid-19 vaccinations
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Two people were killed and four injured, including one international tourist, during a cartel shootout at a luxury resort near Cancun, Quintana Roo, on Thursday, Nov. 4. According to local police accounts, 15 men armed with long guns stormed the Puerto Morelos resort’s beach from a boat and opened fire on members of a
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After nearly two years of lockdowns and covid-19 social-distancing restrictions, Mexico is ready to reopen its doors to national and international travel wholesalers in its 45th annual Tourism Tiangüis next month in the southeastern state of Yucatán, federal Tourism (Sectur) Secretary Miguel Torruco Marqués announced last week. And this year, Latin America’s most important travel wholesale market
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF One of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) pet megaprojects — the construction of multi-billion-peso Tren Maya tourist train across the Yucatan Peninsula — keeps getting costlier and costlier, while projections for its completion keep getting delayed. According to the National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur), the Tren Maya will cost
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By KELIN DILLON Several months after Mexico’s air space rating was downgraded from a category 1 to a category 2 by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the country has failed to fix its aviation-related issues to regain a higher rating within the year, pushing its reevaluation into 2022. While Deputy Secretary of Transportation Carlos Morán and the Deputy Secretary
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By KELIN DILLON A total of five families from the Central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have reportedly been held at the Cancun airport’s immigration for more than a month, with officials demanding $3,000 per person for their release. After officials suspected their passports and travel documentation were falsified, the immigration officers then reportedly claimed the families were lying
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By RICH GRANT We did not want to go to Auschwitz-Birkenau. After all, it had taken us a lot of time and effort just to get to Krakow. The sun was out, and it was a perfect day. Pretty Polish girls walked by in summer dresses. The cafes of Old Town were buzzing and there were buskers singing and juggling
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