News

News in the Yucatan this week ranges from how to prevent fires (yes, we do have them here) to information about Yucatecans of Korean heritage, and local women who raise tropical plants for sale. Also, a town hall meeting in Progreso about hurricanes…

In the news this week, a program for children to learn how to plant trees in Valladolid, hurricane preparedness, the recovery of Mahajual, and a plea for help for a child in need…

Progreso’s market is almost finished (finally!), there’s a new book out called Hacienda Style that’s a MUST if you are building or decorating a house here, and news from around the State about Rotarians, fisherman and more…

In the news this week, NAFTA bestows some unintended gifts, the heat in the Yucatan gets even hotter, and architects and chemists choose Merida for their yearly meetings. Also, honey production is down a bit…

Learn about the LEAF Program, coming to the Yucatan! Also, Valladolid gets a Health Club, No Smoking comes to Mexico City (and the Yucatan?) and the Southern Highway Project gets started…

The corn beetles have shown up early and in huge numbers…what does it mean? The tourists have shown up in huge numbers and we know what that means. More news on coastal development, Yucatecos in the USA and more…

This week, we welcome a new connection with truckers in Canada, and we take some time to think about our water quality, helmet laws, honey industry, fish consumption and the problem of junk food in the Yucatan…

A lot of news this week! Merida’s homeboy Roberto Solis shines in San Miguel, Canada welcomes Mexican immigrants, Costa Maya reopening for business, Calotmul teaching their children well and a whole lot more…

A fresh apology, a new website, a new poll and a new zoo! We guess that is why they call it News! Read more here…

In the news of Merida and the Yucatan this week, we solve the mystery of Maya Blue, bring you up-to-date on honey, agave and the Red Cross, and even share a great mojito recipe! There’s more too…

Yucatan News: Telmex payphone rates drop 60%, planeloads of tourists come to Yucatán from Milán, Izamal gets Cable TV, workshops for Women farmers, the Diario writes about renovating the Centro, and much more…

This week, we have a review on “Decreto 801″, also an overview of education facilities in Mérida, free vaccinations for children and a little from The Yucatan Yodeler’s Blog!

The Merida English Library’s Annual Chili Cookoff is around the corner! Get your recipes ready! Also, a number of UADY’s students are still in the game to participate in the Fencing competitions at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing!

This week’s news is a little late… find out why. Also, news about the restoration of sacred art in the Yucatan, news from the States and the 175th anniversary of the School of Medicine at UADY…

Organic food, cruise ships, smart investors and donated school supplies are all coming to Merida and the surrounding Yucatan Peninsula…

Yucatan’s former governor gets elected to a national post, they are teaching Maya in the public schools and we find a great quote from a 19th Century photographer who visited the Yucatan…

Read about local debutantes and the King & Queen of the Carnival. There’s more to all of them than meets the eye. Passport cards can take the place of passports, and the local fruit called mamey is going commercial.

‘Tis the time in Mexico for even more celebration. It doesn’t stop on New Years Day around here, but just seems to keep going. This week has 3 Kings Day and then it’s back to school and work… til Carnivale!

In the news about the Yucatan this week, a bicycle tour from Chichen Itza to Izamal, Mexico’s remittance programs and holiday safety.

More tourism numbers, an update about Tabasco, a Mexican Christmas tree goes to Rome to honor the Pope and a Christmas wish from UADY…

Honey is dripping from the trees, and the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe has appeared in Seye…

Tourism, Wireless Internet in the parks, Health Clinics and Laws, the price of tomatoes and learning languages at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) are all in the news this week…

Yucatecan restaurants in Northern California, new fish in the sea, ecotourism near Chetumal, firecracker safety, and new shoes! There’s a wealth of information about the Yucatan in the news this week…

The Yucatan is preparing for the onslaught of tourist and Chinese cars… all good. Meanwhile, the kids are taking charge of their future in Progreso and the fishermen are noticing fewer squid. Maybe the squid are just getting smarter…

Website resources for people traveling through Tabasco, volunteer opportunities in Merida and a new terminal for the airport in Mexico City…

The big news is that Starbucks opened in Merida this week… but of course, there are many other important things going on too. Like processions in the streets, graffiti on monuments and continuing support for Tabasco…

This week the news is full of the disaster in Tabasco. In addition, there is news from across the state in towns from Sisal to Tixkokob and a lot of places in between…

Statistics on construction and developments in the Yucatan, the city of Merida has plans for downtown and it’s sweet orange harvest time in eastern Mexico. Read all about it here…

Yucatan News this week includes a new tourist tax, an update on the fast rail between Quintana Roo and Progreso, and the upcoming Sixth Annual Bird Festival…

This week we’re looking ahead to Day of the Dead, and looking far afield to Yucatecos in San Francisco. Merida is in the news more and more, with a few big mentions this week…

Besides another story about increasing tourist dollars, there is news about mosquitoes this week, as this is the season for them, including a new way to banish them from your presence!

In the news this week, the government’s new efforts at preserving Mayan culture, both here and in other parts of the world. And just a little bit more about honey…

The news this week is all about people and money and shopping centers and developments coming to the Yucatan! After you read about all that, there is even more important news…

This week we’ll tell you why you shouldn’t speed in Oxkutzcab, but should rush to get there for the Orange Festival! Recycling in Progreso, deforestation in Yucatan and so much more!

The world mourns Pavarotti and Quintana Roo mourns Majahual. Wal-Mart gets ready to open two more locations in Mérida while Umán gives out free rabies vaccination and much, much more!

This week we’ll be expecting 400 extra Cruise Ships in Progreso, and a lot of extra sun-spots too… read on to find out all about it!..

Hurricane Dean filled the newspapers this week. We tell you how you can donate both money and goods. Other items in the news include hunting, the local press and investments from around the globe…

We woke up to a little more rain and some wind… but nothing to write home about. More later when there’s more to see…

The city of Merida and all the outlying villages are as ready as they can be as they wait for Hurricane Dean to arrive…

Hurricane Dean seems to have changed its trajectory slightly… but that could make a big difference to Cancun and Merida.

As Hurricane Dean begins to look more certain to hit the Yucatan, residents are hunkering down and preparing for the worst… but hoping for the best!

The best news we’ve heard in a long time: the new mayor is beginning a project to spruce up the Centro and Paseo de Montejo. And there’s more good news…

The governor was sworn in last week. And what was the first thing she did? You’ll be surprised. Lots of animals in the news because the people are all at the beach…

Chichen Itza is in the news again, and probably will be for awhile because it is getting a lot of international attention. There’s a lot going on at the beach too, this time of year…

Notice something different? A lot has been going on behind the scenes at Yucatan Living to bring our readers what they’ve asked for most. Here’s a quick tour of all the new features…

In the news last week: the magical pueblo of Izamal, the airport at Chichen Itza, turtles on the beach, deer in the zoo and, as always, much more…

Find out what Frederick Catherwood, the acclaimed illustrator of Mayan ruins in the mid 19th Century, and Starbucks, the acclaimed purveyor of coffee in the 21st Century, have in common today…

Next weekend, Merida will be holding several cycling competitions in order to promote the sport in the Yucatan. Miles of flat roads sounds like good riding to us…

If you’ve been missing the great cuisine of the big city, here’s your chance. Rene Redzepi, the up and coming chef of Noma in Copenhagen, is coming to cook in Merida…

The most powerful gringo in the world has taken his secret service, barricades, fighter jets, helicopter gunships, sharp-shooters and aircraft carrier and gone home…

Well, what do you know? George W. Bush, the leader of the Western World, is coming to little ol’ Merida to visit with Mexico’s new president, Felípe Calderon, thus putting Merida on the world map once again…

Two of the library’s most important fundraising events, the Chili Cook-off and the garage sale, have been combined this year into one big block party…

Brazos Abiertos, a local non-profit that is building awareness and providing support for HIV/AIDS victims, is holding a benefit. A worthy cause, if there ever was one…

The English-speaking expat community in the Yucatan finally gets its own classified ads on the internet… estamos listos!

Stop the presses! After waiting three long years, a coffee table book about the architecture of Yucatan’s haciendas has finally been published…

This friday, our local animal shelter will be hosting a dinner party to raise money for their ongoing effort to rescue Merida’s stray dogs and cats…

We may not get snow and reindeer here in Merida, but we don’t lack for Christmas cookies…

At least once every few hours, something comes along that forces us to look up from our computer screens and take notice of what’s going on in the real world. Today, it was something special…

We were recently interviewed for the premier edition of a new expatriate magazine called Inside Mexico. We thought we would share the following email that we received from the managing editor, Margot Lee Shetterly…

The following excerpt is from a recently published book on immigration titled, “No One Is Illegal” by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis. We find it interesting and thought our readers might as well, as the authors purportedly have researched a lot of recent data and trends that apply to gringo immigrants to Mexico. Much food for thought…

Two days ago, the Leones (Lions), Yucatan’s baseball team, won the series to become the champions of the National Mexican League of Baseball… or as it is known locally, Liga Mexicana de Béisbol. More than 25,000 Meridanos (a crowd to rival Carnaval) paraded in the streets from Paseo Montejo to the Zocalo…

This morning, we woke up early to take the dogs for a walk. We were surprised to find the park outside of El Gran Cafe crawling with luz y sonido stage techs setting up for a big rally with more political posters than we’ve ever seen in one place…

Last night, at around 10:30 PM, at the very end of a movie we were watching called Everything Is Illuminated, all the lights went out. Think about it. What are the chances of that?…

We think somehow it is our duty to mention that today the three most powerful men in North America visited Yucatan’s most important tourist attraction: the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza…

So here we are again, sitting in our nice air-conditioned renovated colonial office in Merida, thinking we *should* get out there and see Carnaval…

We promised a report on Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos’ farewell speech in Merida last Friday night…

Friday was Subcomandante Marcos’ last day and night in Merida, and he covered a lot of ground…

Conditions for the Mexican workers in Cancun and around the Mayan Riviera are not always as good as would be expected. The Other Campaign arrived recently to hear their stories…

Starting with this latest tour of Mexico, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos is calling himself “Delegate Zero” in reference to the upcoming elections in Mexico for President of the country…

Hurricane Wilma struck the Maya Riviera coast of Mexico on October 21 and 22 of this year. Seven weeks later, the damage is still visible in many places, but the recovery is remarkable…

This morning’s Diario de Yucatan shows a big photo of tourists enjoying themselves on a beach called Playa Delfines, which is the public beach on the Hotel Zone in Cancun…

There were lots of people looking for hotel rooms the last few days. The airport was incredibly crowded, but people are getting out…

Perusing the web on a totally different mission and found this article in the San Francisco Gate from 2001. Not much that the author mentions in the article has changed…

The Diario de Yucatan says that as the hurricane is leaving, thousands of residents are coming out of their shelters to survey the damage…

We’re not too worried about the hurricane. If we were living in Cancun or Tulum, we’d be boarding up doors and windows, but here in Merida we’ll probably only get bad weather…

This morning, Australian movie star Mel Gibson is on the front page of our local Merida newspaper…