Jaltemba
Travel Mexico
August 15 2008
Drummers on the beach of Rincon de Guayabitos
ANNA IBARRA - Posada Las Flores 
By Adam Caddell
It’s a hot thirty-three degrees out, and I am thirsty. My throat is parched beyond imagination yet, I am salivating like a sheep dog gawking at a milk bone. I want a latte’ and I want one now! The only coffee shop in the area I trust is not a coffee shop but a well known Los Ayala bungalow. Posada Las Flores opened in 2004 and has been satisfying the Javaholics fantastic coffee as well as keeping families comfortable in their large. It’s worth the trip; only a five minutes drive from Rincon De Guayabitos or ten minutes from La Penita.
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MEXICO HEADLINES
Gates Foundation Awards $1 Million To Mexican Library
Program trains people in remote
villages to use computers. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is giving its
$1 million "access to learning award" to an organization in Mexico's
Veracruz state…..More
Mexico nabs 6 drug snitches in AG office
Six federal agents have been arrested on suspicion of passing information to a group of powerful drug lords, a spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday. ….More
California's Schwarzenegger launches U.S.-Mexico border governors conference
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday launched the 26th annual Border Governors
Conference (BGC) with the aim of "building green economies" throughout the
border region. ….More
Tropical Storm Iselle Forms In Pacific
Storm Not Expected To Strengthen Much
MEXICO CITY -- Forecasters said Tropical Storm Iselle has formed off Mexico's southern Pacific coast. …More
Mexican citizens asked to fight crime
As kidnapping rates soar, Mexico City's mayor is recruiting 300,000 residents to monitor – and turn in – corrupt cops…..More
Rising peso perplexes Mexicans
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Mexico’s attraction to U.S. retirees.
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Man's 80-year secret revealed
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Mexico sees cheaper electricity by year end
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens said on Wednesday that electricity prices in Mexico could drop significantly by year end and pledged not to abandon subsidies on gasoline anytime soon…..More
Deportation flights to Mexico cost $51 million
U.S. has spent the money to fly home nearly 64,000
illegal immigrants
TUCSON, Arizona - The U.S. government has spent more
than $51 million over the past four summers flying nearly 64,000 illegal
immigrants back to the Mexican interior after they were caught crossing the
border…..More
Mexico Border City Fines U.S. Drivers Seeking Cheap
Diesel
MEXICO CITY — A Mexican border city has begun
fining U.S. drivers who cross the border to fill extra drums, tanks or
barrels with government-subsidized Mexican fuel…..More
U.S. guns arm Mexican drug cartels
Licensed weapons dealers are abundant near the border.
'Straw buyers' assist the traffickers.
SIERRA VISTA, ARIZ. -- High-powered automatic weapons
and ammunition are flowing virtually unchecked from border states into
Mexico, fueling a war among drug traffickers, the army and police that has
left thousands dead, according to U.S. and Mexican officials…..More
Nogales Flood Tunnel Barrier In Mexican Territory
The U.S. will have to tear down part of a barrier and
gate it put up inside a flood tunnel in Nogales. An international commission
has ruled that it's located on the mexican side of the border…..More
Hernan becomes hurricane in Pacific off Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hurricane Hernan formed far off
Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday and continued to pick up steam, but
forecasters predicted it will not threaten land…..More