Alma Verde Brings Brunch to Tijuana

Places to eat out on a Sunday in Tijuana are limited. It's either curing your hangover with some good ol' birria or going to the three or four regularly visited family restaurants. Which is why when we heard about Alma Verde opening its doors in La Cacho, we got excited, in part because of their […]

April 13, 2017

ALERT: 17-year-old from Tijuana missing in San Diego

SAN DIEGO – Cristian José Olmos Blanca of 17 years of age has gone missing since yesterday after school ended in San Diego. His father, Raúl Olmos, started asking for help via social media after the teenager wasn't found at San Agustin High School. "…We don't know if he took off with someone or what […]

April 13, 2017

Injunctions Won’t Affect El Chapo’s Extradition

MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Attorney General, Arely Gómez, declared that the legal injunctions known as amparos, that have been filed by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's legal defense team, won't deter his extradition to the United States. There is currently no official order issued by the Mexican government. Gómez assured Grupo Imagen that multiple amparos have […]

April 13, 2017

NFL Teams to Play In Mexico This Year

These week’s rumors have been confirmed: the NFL will host a regular season game at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City and will be officially announced on Friday before the Super Bowl. During the traditional press conference before the biggest sport event in the nation, Commissioner Roger Goodell is expected to announce the game. The press […]

April 13, 2017

This Is Pangea, Tijuana’s Only Hostel

The first thing a traveler looks for when deciding for his or her new adventure are hostels and affordable sites to spend the night and enjoy the city without paying an arm and a leg for it. Until recently, Tijuana lacked a place where young people from all over the world could stay without burning […]

April 13, 2017

Mexico’s New Presidential Plane Is Here

MEXICO CITY – Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto's new Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed on Mexico City International Airport early this morning after flying from Dallas, Texas. Via Proceso It'll be named after national hero José María Morelos y Pavón, with a capacity of up to 80 passengers, has state-of-the-art telecomm satellite equipment and Internet. Photo: […]

April 13, 2017

Is Baja About to Ban Bullfighting?

This Sunday, more than 45,000 spectators rushed to the biggest bullfighting ring in the world, Plaza México, filling it to capacity like never before. Thousand of souls looking to celebrate the ancestral rite that is bullfighting in Mexico City, selling out tickets,a contrast to Baja California in the north, where just a few days ago, […]

April 13, 2017

CCDER: Paving The Way For Far-Reaching Projects For The Development Of Rosarito

To establish a solid basis for this effort, the CCDER has reduced its working committees from 16 to 3 with focus on Economic Development, Education and Public Safety; it has created a project area and it has also developed a methodology for project incubation. Moreover, it has also given more attention to expenditure management; it […]

April 13, 2017

Mexico Still Third Best Place to Retire

BAJA CALIFORNIA – International Living Magazine has released its World's Best Places to Retire in 2016 list. A list they say is their "most comprehensive yet", with 10 different categories factoring everything that makes a great retirement destination, such as how much is rent, average humidity, direct flights from the U.S., how much is a […]

April 13, 2017

Mexicans Won’t Need a Visa to Visit Canada Anymore

The visa requirement for Mexicans will cease to exist, this according to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Dion, declaring the end of a requirement imposed back in 2009. The decision was announced this Friday after the Ottawa Forum 2016: Building a Foreign Policy for Canada’s Future. The problem is, they still haven’t announced when […]

April 13, 2017

Charlie Sheen was in Rosarito

ROSARITO – The U.S. actor came down to visit Baja these last few days, according to Gustavo Torres, a representative of Baja California's Secretary of Tourism. We don't know if it was a pleasure or medical treatment type of visit, the latter being a pretty common thing among U.S. actors, especially someone like Sheen. Photo: […]

April 13, 2017

“Barrios Hermanos” Hopes To Unite Tijuana and San Diego Neighborhoods

TIJUANA – Barrios Hermanos, a project that hopes to build stronger bonds between San Diego's South Park neighborhood and Tijuana's Colonia Federal, was presented yesterday as part of a pilot program conceived by Centro Ventures, an urban development group based in Tijuana. The main goal of Barrios Hermanos —roughly translated as "Brotherly Neighborhoods"— is to […]

April 13, 2017

Mexico: The Most Corrupt Developed Nation

Mexico still ranks the most corrupt countries in the world, according to the Corruption Perception Index 2015 published today by Transparency International and Transparencia Mexicana, scoring 35 points in a scale of 100 to 0, with 100 being the least corrupt. The Index scored 168 countries and Mexico landed on number 95, which means it’s […]

April 13, 2017

Sanders and Clinton Debate Before Iowa Caucuses

CNN broadcasted a town hall meeting in Des Moines, Iowa, with all three remaining Democratic candidates participating, a crucial event on the road to secure the Democratic nomination, since based on the most recent polls, both candidates are pretty much tied in Iowa. It was a sort-of town hall, since the candidates never saw each […]

April 13, 2017

MIND BAJA CALIFORNIA: Looks To Capitalize Innovation In The Northeastern Region

MIND (Mexico Innovation and Design) was created. It is a place where the industrial sectors, creative industry companies and entrepreneurs can meet, network, and interact to focus their talent on developing ideas, converting them into processes and integrating them to the industry. In order to make innovation and design a fundamental part of the strategy […]

April 13, 2017

$50k Reward for Escaped Orange County Prisoners

The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the three felons who escaped from the Orange County jail located in Santa Ana last Friday. This is in addition to the up to $20,000 reward being offered by the FBI. Source: Fox 13 Jonathan Tieu (20), Hoseein Nayeri […]

April 13, 2017

“El Chapo” Wants to Make a Deal With the U.S.?

MEXICO – After Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto's announcement about the urgency in his administration to extradite the Sinaloa cartel leader "El Chapo" Guzmán to the U.S., Joaquín Guzmán Loera might play one last dirty trick on Peña Nieto's administration. According to Proceso, José Refugio Rodríguez Núñez, who's the head of "El Chapo" Guzmán's legal […]

April 13, 2017

Dear Tourist: Mexico is 50% Cheaper Thanks to Weak Peso!

In August of last year, we published an article announcing that it was 20% cheaper to visit and live in Mexico. At the time, the value of the dollar had leaped to 16.45 pesos — a 20% increase since the year prior. [p]In recent days, the dollar has grazed the 19 peso to dollar rate, […]

April 13, 2017

Western Regional Meeting Of The Mexico-United States Binational Group

The event, a collective effort to discuss and rethink cross-border infrastructure topics, counted with the assistance and participation of various experts on the topics of transportation and logistics, such as the Pacific Imperial Railroad and INDRA, among others. The event was presided by Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon, General Director of Special Affairs of the […]

April 13, 2017

Mexicans Panic as Peso Hits All Time High of 20 per Dollar

Just this weekend, the dollar in Mexico broke the $18.70 pesos per $1 barrier, a record, and as expected, it wasn't going stop there. Now it's almost at $19 pesos per dollar. The Mexican peso has depreciated 6.7% in value, brought on mainly because of the fall in oil prices, which is currently at $28 […]

April 13, 2017