The Latin America Travel Blog
Lost in the din of the saturation coverage of the Swine Flu scare, was the news that Mexico’s senate approved legislation that would legalize possession of small amounts of narcotics such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. The measure, which was proposed by the country’s conservative-leaning president Felipe Calderon, seems to have stalled in the lower [...]
Unstable governments, reports of widespread robberies and kidnappings–the steady stream of bad news abroad is enough to make someone just stay home or, at least, within their own country’s borders. And this was before the saturation coverage of Mexico’s struggles with the drug-cartels and the Swine Flu. But I’ve come to believe that avoiding risk [...]
