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The latest news and entertainment from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Local, National, and International News for expats living in Mexico.

At many hospitals worldwide, you don’t pay, you can’t leave

Doctors at Nairobi’s Kenyatta National Hospital have told Robert Wanyonyi there’s nothing more they can do for him. Yet more than a year after he...
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Jalisco expected to increase fine for infractions by motorcyclists

Motorcyclists who do not respect their lane and circulate on sidewalks could face more severe fines in Jalisco. The Commission of Constitutional Points in the...
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American company opens private prison in Mexico

A federal prison in northern Mexico owned by BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) has gone into operation, the government said, as the world’s largest asset manager expands...
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Meet Mexico’s Trinity of Death – Day of the Dead, Santa Muerte, and Catrina Calavera

Meet Mexico’s Trinity of Death – Day of the Dead, Santa Muerte, and Catrina Calavera

The season of death is fast approaching. October is here and soon comes Halloween with its cavalcade of ghosts and goblins together with the Catholic...
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Forgotten History: Mexico accepted slave migrants fleeing the U.S.

The Underground Railroad ran south as well as north. For slaves in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery was...
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Public will decide future of Mexico’s $13 billion airport

The future of Mexico City’s new airport, already about a third completed, comes down to a public vote this week in a political high-wire act...
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Five homeless people in Guadalajara killed in their sleep this week

The General Prosecutor's Office of Jalisco reported that they are investigating the homicides of five homeless people in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara. The homicides...
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After city inspection, Puerto Vallarta gives the green light after Hurricane Willa

After the evaluation made by the Subdirectorate of Civil Protection and Firefighters of Puerto Vallarta to the conditions that prevailed in the bay after the...
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Puerto Vallarta gets its groove back after passing of Hurricane Willa

Puerto Vallarta residents and vacationers began to resume their usual activities this Wednesday after not having been affected by the passage of Hurricane Willa. From...
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Crews begin cleanup of landslides and trees blocking roads in Jalisco

In the last 30 hours, the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) has recorded 24 landslides and fallen trees that have obstructed federal highways in...
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Mexico inflation rose less than expected in early October

Mexican annual inflation in the first half of October rose less than expected, official data showed on Wednesday, but the rate was still above the...
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Residents living at ground zero of Hurricane Willa have longest night of their life

A day after the passage of Hurricane Willa, which caused a night of panic and terror, the residents of the Escuinapa, Sinaloa awake to a...
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Agents nab possible explosive devices sent to CNN and Democrats

A sudden wave of pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, other prominent Democrats and CNN was thwarted without physical harm, but an...
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Mexico hints it could be next country to legalize marijuana

Mexico’s incoming foreign minister, Marcelo Ebrard, said the country could “absolutely” follow Canada in legalizing marijuana as a way to reduce violence generated by a...
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Willa weakens to tropical depression, still brings rain

Hurricane Willa weakened rapidly into a tropical depression on Wednesday after slamming into a stretch of beach towns, fishing villages and farms along Mexico’s Pacific...
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Second migrant caravan in Guatemala heads toward Mexico

A group of over a thousand Central Americans in Guatemala headed toward the Mexican border on Tuesday, as a larger caravan of migrants that has...
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New U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade pact promises to strengthen LGBTQ rights

New U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade pact promises to strengthen LGBTQ rights

Donald Trump’s new North American trade agreement could benefit an unexpected group: the LGBTQ community. Buried in the mammoth agreement is a requirement that the...
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Hurricane Willa batters Sinaloa, sparking floods, outages

Hurricane Willa slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast late on Tuesday, raking it with winds of 120 mph (195 kph) that brought power outages, buffeted buildings,...
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Exciting new changes at the Boutique Theatre in Puerto Vallarta

The Boutique Community Theatre is humming with anticipation for its lineup this season, according to Ken and Karrie Sebryk, the Boutique’s founding directors. “We welcome...
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Why are migrants leaving Central America?

A caravan of some 7,000 Central American migrants is advancing through southern Mexico with hopes of reaching the U.S. border. The vast majority of them...
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