Daily Archives: December 5, 2019

Palacio Cantón apologizes, promises reform, after dust-up with gay visitors

A peck on the cheek from one man to another drew the ire of an employee at the Museum of Anthropology in Mérida. Now,...

Drug-stuffed cupcakes seized at Mérida airport

Mérida, Yucatán — A shipment of methadone, oxycodone and opioid substances were hidden inside packaged cupcakes until an on-duty canine sniffed them out, said...

Jorge Pardo celebrates the ‘weird expats’ of Merida

“Sunny people and weird expats,” says Jorge Pardo when asked to describe his fellow residents of Mérida, Mexico. The Cuban-American New York-based artist has lived in...

San Miguel mayor denies city has fallen prey to cartels

The mayor of San Miguel de Allende is denying that drug cartels have hit his city. In response to a Bloomberg News story about organized...

Half of all workers in Yucatan get stiffed when Christmas bonus time comes

In Yucatan, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), almost five out of 10 workers do not receive the Christmas bonus due them.
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