Mexico Insight
Mexico City offers bikes in its clean air campaign
Topics: Colonial Cities | Living & Working
Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 11:52am | Comments 1
Mexico City (AP)- Pedaling placidly, black-suited businessmen and women in dresses and high heels wheel shiny red bikes between growling green buses, serenaded by shrill police whistles and coughing diesel trucks, the morning sunlight filtering through yellow smog. Happy Earth Day, Mexico City. With its scofflaw drivers, gridlocked traffic and cobblestoned downtown, Mexico City isn't t [...]
Special Canadian visa program for Mexican business travelers
Topics: Living & Working
Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 5:23pm | Comments 0
The Canadian immigration minister announced the new programme, where participants will be able to get their Canadian visa requests processed within 24 hours. "Canada welcomes travelers from Mexico and has been looking at ways to provide enhanced services to applicants,” Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said in a press release. Participation [...]
Mexico’s Peso Rises as Unemployment Falls
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Monday, March 29, 2010 - 2:48pm | Comments 0
March 25 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s peso rose for the third time this week as the unemployment rate in February fell more than forecast. The currency gained 0.2 percent to 12.5655 per U.S. dollar at 5 p.m. New York time, from 12.5857 yesterday. The unemployment rate fell to 5.43 percent in February, from 5.87 percent in January, the national statistics agency said today. Economists [...]
E-2 Visas provide refuge to those escaping violence in Mexico
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 2:33pm | Comments 0
(San Diego- Latindispatch.com)- Last year Jorge, a Tijuana business owner who asked for anonymity for safety reasons, was driving home from work when several cars attempted to corner him. When he realized that he was in the middle of a classic kidnap setup, he quickly accelerated and squeezed his Mini-Cooper in between two of the cars. As Jorge escaped, shots rang out beh [...]
US-Mexico Border Immigrant Rights Groups Helping Haiti
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 2:54pm | Comments 0
(Border- Mexidata.info) - Deeply moved by the massive destruction of the Haiti earthquake, residents of the US-Mexico border region are contributing to relief efforts. In El Paso, Texas, the American Red Cross reported 240 donations received by Friday, January 15. Local schools are enlisting in the the aid campaign, and a private business, Agua Boutique, is collecting clothing that will be s [...]
Three Kings Day
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 11:14am | Comments 0
In Mexico, Christmas (Navidad) is a religious observance which begins with the Posadas, nine days before Christmas Eve, which is the holy night, or Noche Buena. The Posadas are meant to honor the nine days that Joseph and Mary spent looking for lodging. Celebrating Christmas in Mexico takes nearly a month, and is filled with many feasts and plenty of opportunities to visit with friends and f [...]
U.S. Leaves China for Mexico
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 11:03am | Comments 0
MEXICO CITY (CNNExpansion.com) -- Mexico did not have an extreme economic makeover, but the global recession was enough to defeat China as the number one place for American assembly-for-export factories, or maquiladoras. "For many companies that want to export to the United States, like the maquiladoras, Mexico's exchange rate will be seen as a stable and permanent advantage and we are [...]
It's Time for the Posadas
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Monday, November 30, 2009 - 9:11am | Comments 0
These Posadas are an enactment of looking for lodging of St. Joseph and Virgin Mary, called The Pilgrims going to Bethlehem for the Census according to the Scriptures. In Spanish we called them: "Los Peregrinos, San José y la Virgen María". Each family in a neighborhood, will schedule a night for the Posada to be held at their home, starting on the 16th of Dece [...]
Tourist Police might be created in Northern Mexico
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 9:43am | Comments 0
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Municipal authorities in the Mexican state of Baja California discussed the creation of a bilingual police that meets American tourists traveling to Mexico. The plan, announced Monday at the town hall of the U.S. city of San Diego, Mexico is to form a joint force to patrol the 80 km (50 miles) from the tourist corridor between the towns of Tijuana, Rosarito Beach and Ensenad [...]
Mexicans Still Want to Immigrate to the US
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Written by: Administrator Immigracion.com.mx
Published: Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 9:56am | Comments 0
In spite of high unemployment in the United States and strict border enforcement, one-third of Mexicans say they would move to this country if they could, and more than half of those would move even if they did not have legal immigration documents, according to a survey published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center. The United States still exerts a powerful attraction for Mexicans, t [...]
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