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Gas Prices Keeping You from that Road Trip to Baja?
Gas Prices are Much Cheaper in Mexico ! If you are having second thoughts about driving to Mexico because of high gas prices - know this: gas in Mexico is currently much cheaper than in the US. Mexico Gas Prices as of May 2008: - Regular Unleaded Gas: Read More...
An Important Article by Patrick Osio, Jr.
U.S. drug users: Main cause for Mexico ’s bloodbath By Patrick Osio, Jr. It’s time to take the gloves off and lay the responsibility for the bloodbath taking place on a daily basis in Mexico where it belongs – U.S. drug users. Mexican Read More...
Mexico Builds Hospitals to Lure Medical Tourists from America
By Thomas Black March 27 ( Bloomberg ) -- The only way Bridget Flanagan, a 21-year-old college student from Olympia, Washington, could afford the obesity surgery she needed was to go to Mexico. Her health insurance didn't cover the treatment. Traveling Read More...
U.S. Truckers Find Cheaper Fuel South of the Border
The Trucker News Services 4/11/2008 REYNOSA , Mexico — Some truckers and other motorists from the United States are paying much less for diesel and gasoline in Mexico than north of the border, according to an article in The Monitor of McAllen, Texas. Read More...
Farmers Crossing the Border - To Mexico
Farmers Crossing The Border - To Mexico Is The Land Of Plenty Shifting South? Call It Reverse Immigration SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, Mexico, April 9, 2008 (CBS) The Mexican state of Guanajuato has fertile land and a mild climate. For years, however, poverty Read More...
Wal-Mart Gets Its Bank - In Mexico (From Fortune Magazine)
by Carolyn Whelan (Fortune Magazine) -- For years, Wal-Mart tried to enter the U.S. banking business, but it gave up in 2007, pulling its application after endless outcries from domestic retail banks. Now it's found a more receptive audience south Read More...
3 Myths About the World's Top Retirement Haven
http://www.internationalliving.com/mexico/free/09-11-07-mexico-myths.html 3 Myths About the World's Top Retirement Haven Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007 Mérida , Mexico It's high time Mexico earned the title "world's top retirement haven," Read More...
IMPORTANT BORDER CLOSING INFO FOR FRI. 8/31/07
Mexican teachers protesting pension By Anna Cearley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 30, 2007 TIJUANA – A Mexican teachers union plans to block ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border tomorrow to protest changes to federal employee pension Read More...
Closing Costs and Procedures in Mexico: What to Expect
Baja Real Estate Closing Costs and Procedures Summarized effective Jan 1, 2007 (This article is available for download as an attachment to this post) We are often asked about the costs of closing a real estate transaction in Baja, and unfortunately have Read More...
Thinking of Buying a Home or Condo in Mexico...
but still aren't sure? Have you found some information regarding purchasing in Mexico but still have questions? Maybe you'd like to know about the real estate market in Mexico, particularly Baja California - Is it in the same state as it is in Read More...