One of the speakers at TBEX 10 last weekend was Kelley Ferro of TripFilms, a YouTube-like website that is exclusively devoted to vacation videos. The site features thousands of videos with travel pointers. Many of them are shot in Latin American countries such as Buenos Aires or Mexico. The videos can be a bit amatuerish [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mexico City’
Four iPhone Apps for Mexico City
Going to Mexico City? There’s an app. for that. The number of Mexico-centric iPhone apps seems to have proliferated since I last checked into this in the late spring. Here are four that specifically relate to Mexico City: Mexico City Maps Offline. Allows to users to view maps of Mexico City offline without internet connection. [...]
Interview: David Lida, Author of Critically Acclaimed Book About Mexico City ‘First Stop in the New World’
Back in January when I reviewed David Lida’s book First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century, I said that it gives a clear-eyed appraisal of life in Mexico City. Those who are willing to brave the city’s flaws and complications are the beneficiaries of its rich cultural elements [...]
Mexico Working to Make 2009 a Record-Breaking Year
If you ask most people in the U.S. what words pop in their heads when they think of Mexico, they would probably say “Swine Flu” or “drug cartel crisis.” But Mexicans are working hard to bring the phrase “world record” to mind. Since January, Mexicans have broken the world records for the biggest cheesecake, kissing, [...]
A Civic Aftershock Unleashed by an Earthquake
In the aftermath of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, “citizens discovered each other, their own strength, and the superfluidity of what seemed like an omnipotent and pervasive government, and they did not let go of what they discovered,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her recently released book A Paradise Built in Hell. Solnit’s book looks at [...]
Mexico City Offers Free Health Insurance to Tourists
Wondering whether to take out a health insurance policy for your next trip to Mexico? You should probably skip it, if you’ll be visiting Mexico City. Mexico City recently announced that its offering free medical care and assistance to its national and international tourists. The program, which is subsidized by the Mexico City Ministry of [...]
Mexico No Longer The Place for a Quickie Divorce
Mexico City’s efforts to implement its no-fault divorce law was the subject of a story in the New York Times yesterday. Before the law’s enactment about eight months ago, a typical divorce proceeding would drag on for years. But it wasn’t always this way. The divorce laws in some parts of Mexico used to be [...]
Working Up the Courage to Visit Mexico City
As much as I enjoy Mexico, the thought of visiting Mexico City still sends a tremor of fear down my spine. This is especially vexing because the city has become increasingly intriguing to me over the past year or so. But regardless of whether my feelings are rational are not, I’m in pretty good company [...]
A Guide to Sleeping in Latin American Airports
Remember Tom Hanks in the 2004 movie The Terminal? For anyone who missed it, the film’s about a man who ends up living in a New York airport because of a void passport. MSNBC just reported that a Japanese man who had been living in the Mexico City Airport since September finally returned home on [...]
Latin American Destinations Relatively Unscathed By Today Show Travel Editor’s Book ‘Don’t Go There’
When I first heard about Peter Greenberg’s new book Don’t Go There! , I was curious to see what the travel writer and editor for NBC’s Today show had to say about Latin American destinations. As the title suggests, Greenberg takes the opposite approach of most travel books. Instead of highlighting the benefits of a [...]
