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Irma del Valle

By Tara Spears

Looking at the radiant smile that mirrors Irma del Valle’s positive outlook, one knows that this lady enjoys her work. “As I open the door to my business every day I feel like I must still dreaming” said Irma with help of a translator. “It is such a good feeling to know that I will help people today.” As the satisfied clients of Masaje Esbeltica will attest, one hour with Irma’s magic hands eases pain and stress. The spa boasts modern equipment, a tranquil, private facility, health products, and individualized massage therapy. In addition to the six days that the spa on Avenida Sol Nuevo #545, Centro Guayabitos, is open, Irma provides at-home massage by appointment.

To read more about the healing hands of Irma....click here

Premiering November 2, 2008

An Exclusive Bed & Breakfast in a quaint, Mexican beach town…

Tropical Manor House

www.tropicalmanorhouse.com

Come stay with us a while, and discover the true pleasures of a tropical vacation get away, as it should be. We pride ourselves on providing "Personalized Vacation Experiences", comfortable accommodations with a touch of luxury, in lush surroundings.

Pre-Select your delicious breakfast from our varied menu, indicating your preferred breakfast time and we will serve it to you on your private patio, or on the main terrace overlooking the sea. Experience "Sitting in the Sky" on our pool patio before taking a refreshing dip in your private plunge pool. For your pleasure we also serve cocktails on the ocean view terrace, in the afternoon or evening depending on the day's activities.

The perfect get away for a romantic honeymoon, family vacation, or simply a great spot for friends to share an active vacation. Come and experience authentic Mexico without sacrificing creature comforts.

Be our guests, our only guests, and let us strive to anticipate your every need and fulfill your every wish.

Accepting reservations for the 2008/2009 season, now!

Promotional Introductory Rates $700 USD per week, including taxes. Based on double occupancy.

Email: tropicalmanorhouse@gmail.com

Tel: 327-274-3516

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Saving Your Plants Without Slaying the Dragon

By Tara Spears

It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder-so while I enjoy having this unique, dragon-like visitor to my garden, others might shriek and consider the scaly clawed Mexican iguanas a nuisance. True, they are herbivores that are particularly fond of eating tropical plants, flowers, stems, leaves, and fruit. Therefore, any garden is very attractive, rather like a restaurant, for iguanas. If you want to make nice, hold out a hibiscus flower. (It is equivalent to offering a dog a bone.) I am comfortable sharing space with these prehistoric looking critters because they are not venomous and are not likely to bite people: I don’t mind if they consume a branch or two of my plants…. but my neighbors and a couple of readers, however, are highly annoyed with marauding iguanas that decimate entire prized plants in 15 minutes’ time.

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Thirty-Seventh Annual AMPI Conference
John K. Glaab - CIPS

This year's Annual Conference of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals (AMPI) will be held in the Riviera Maya from November 19th-22nd.

This year's Annual Conference of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals (AMPI) will be held in the Mayan Riviera. Dates for the event are November 19th to 22nd.

Joining AMPI members at the Conference and Trade Show will be members of the National Association of Realtors from the United States and Central America. Linda Neil of Mexico's The Settlement Company will conduct daily Networking sessions at the Conference.

Three NAR courses will be presented. These are, Doing Business in Mexico, Transnational Referral Certification and Investment & Financial Analysis. The latter is one of the five courses Realtors must pass in addition to other requirements, in order to earn the Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) designation. There are approximately 2,000 CIPS Designees, worldwide. These are spread among NAR's 71 cooperating associations such as AMPI, in 55 Nations.

Presentations to be made include; a panel on Investing in Mexico, The U.S. Recession and its Effect on Mexican Real Estate. John Tucello, a consultant and former Chief of Economic Research at NAR, will deliver the Eight New Rules of Real Estate.

Elena Carrillo, International Strategic Manager of NAR, will speak about a new program that can be found at RealEstateConnections.tv and the new AMPI National MLS system will be presented. It can be found at ampi.org.

The General Assembly will be held on Saturday Morning. This meeting will conduct AMPI business such as the election of ten new members of the National Advisory Board, the President's Report, the Association's Annual Financial Report and presentation of member awards. The location of the 2009 Conference will be announced at the General Assembly.

John Glaab has been a member of NAR's International Section for over a decade. He has earned the Certified International Property Specialist designation and is a founding member of AMPI Los Cabos. He spends half the year in La Paz, Baja California Sur and the other half in Uruapan, Michoacan. For further information, contact John at John.Glaab(at)settlement-co.com.


November 10, 2008 Its Free Page 1- Mexico News, Features Page 2 - Features Page 3 - Features, Weather, Sports, Exchange, Community Calendar Page 4 - Classifieds Page 5 - Real Estate Jaltemba Travel Mexico Click on ad for more information Go here for details on this home or Go here for more Real Estate	Jody Butler (center) of British Columbia, being a certified lifeguard, saw the couple in distress in the ocean by Villa Corona Del Mar. She went in and rescued the women first and then the husband. The couple was very thankful and emotional. FASHION SHOW 2009: Fashion Show 2009 will be held Feb.10th at the San Carlos in Rincon de Guayabitos. Doors will open at 11a.m. , lunch will be served at 12p.m. and the show starting at 1p.m. Tickets for the show will again be 250 pesos and will be available as of Nov.19th. This years the organizing committee is offering "table sales", whereby a party of ten can reserve a table in advance through the attached PAYPAL account. These tickets will be available until Jan.1'st only and sales will be limited to 10 tables. Volunteers, models and designers are asked to meet at the home of Jan Poteat Nov.17th at 10:00 a.m. Those who don't know where this is call Jan at 2743230 for directions. Those who know please help others. Please spread the word about this first organizational meeting..thank you. Kate Baron and the Fashion Show Committee. Remember to keep your paypal receipt Amigos de La Peñita is seeking persons who are willing to serve as an officer. This Nominating Committee is seeking persons from the International Community, who wish to hold one of four offices. There is a parallel group that is seeking local, Spanish speaking nominees. There are four positions (President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary. Each office is co-held by one person from the international community and one from the local community. Election of these new officers will be at the November 24 meeting. The term of service will be approximately one year, beginning November 24 and ending with elections in November of 2009. Currently there are two persons in nomination. One is for Treasurer. The other person is willing to serve as either VP or Secretary. Please feel free to nominate yourself or a willing friend to any of the four offices. Please include a way to contact the nominee to insure their agreement. Please direct your nominations to me via email, telephone, or drop-off a written nomination at my house. The list of nominees will be available to anyone who wishes to know the candidates, at any point before November 24. Thanks for your interest. TPlattenberger@mac.com 274 2612 Circuito Libertad 7 (number 15 on Jared's Map of La Peñita) Mexico News Get an all-girl intro to surfing at Mexico's Las Olas So you say you want to surf? Las Olas surf safaris for women in Mexico will quash any reservations or excuses that have held you back from splashing around in the waves in the past. ……More Mexico jungle development offers alternative to beach When everyone else was looking to the beach, the Schnurr family set its sights on the jungle. About five years ago, the Austin, Texas-based developers hit upon a vision of eco-friendly development: a subdivision of solar-powered resort and retirement homes in the lush jungle two hours south of Cancun. ……More In food crisis, Mexico offers lesson On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. 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The commercial port will allow for faster expedition of vehicles transporting merchandise to the United States," according to Enrique Orozco, President of the International Industrial Park in charge of followup on the project. ……More Inflation in Mexico at highest point in 7 years Mexico's inflation has reached its highest level in seven years, hitting an annual rate of 5.8 percent in October, the central bank reported Friday. ……More Santa Muerte is no saint, say Mexican bishops The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Mexico City condemned devotion to Santa Muerte "Saint Death" that masquerades as authentic Catholic Christianity. ……More Mexican art, food, architecture and music head to Moscow for a monthlong festival. At the moment, a flight to Mexico City, where it is currently a sunny 25 degrees Celsius and full of traffic jams, costs 36,000 rubles ($1,327) and takes 17 hours. Don't bother flying, though -- just next week modern Mexico will come to you, tucking itself into buildings all over a different traffic-jammed city despite the weather being close to 25 degrees less. ……More 3 tigers escape circus truck in western Mexico Police recapture big cats after distracting them by throwing them chickens……More Mexico's consumer confidence index reaches record low Mexico's consumer confidence fell in October to the lowest level since the national statistics agency began tracking the index in 2001, as the global credit crisis slowed growth in Latin America's second-largest economy…..More Many gather to ponder end of Maya days The calendar of the ancient civilization ends Dec. 21, 2012. Hundreds of people gathered near the Golden Gate Bridge over the weekend to ponder the enigmatic date of Dec. 21, 2012, the last day of the ancient Maya calendar and the focus of many end-of-the-world predictions……More Guaymas port authority launches US$39mn container terminal tender Mexico's Guaymas port authority has launched a tender to build and operate a container terminal at the facility located in Sonora state, the transport and communications ministry announced in a release. ….More I Do, Forever, in Mexico In the twenty-first century, an era where many couples left in the past the idea of getting married and raising a family in exchange for preserving their freedom and independence, the possibility of organizing and conducting a wedding in a tourist destination (destination wedding) has become a reality for those who opt for saying yes to marriage, a market trend that exceeds all expectations…..More United States could learn from Mexico's health system Julio Frenk, who served as Minister of Health of Mexico between 2000 and 2006, spoke at University of California-Davis in April about Mexico's efforts to reform and expand its health care system. He chose to focus on the ethical principles that guided the architects of the new plan….More Searching Mexico for shamans Krzysztof Pietroszek, IJ grant recipient, and his translator explore the culture and rituals of shamanic people, which includes their use of peyote….More PokerStars LAPT Heads for Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico With the first Latin American Poker Tour Season Two event now underway in Costa Rica, PokerStars has announced details for the next stop of the LAPT: Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico from December 5-7, 2008…..More Mexico sees 'brain drain' as the brightest go north For years, Mexico's relatively weak economy has pushed thousands of low-wage workers toward the United States. Now, worries about Mexico's long-term direction are pushing highly educated workers on the same path. ….More Mexico 3rd-Quarter Growth Likely 1.7%, Ministry Says Oct. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's economic growth probably slowed to 1.7 percent in the third quarter as the global credit crisis weakened the manufacturing and construction industries, the Finance Ministry said….More Tourists Love Mexico's Day of the Dead Tourists love Mexican spectacles, and nothing is more spectacular than Día de los Muertos. Every year around October 31 to November 2, hordes of tourists descend upon pueblos famous for their Day of the Dead celebrations, expecting to witness an authentic, centuries-old custom of the living communing with the dead. But according to one anthropologist, what tourists often behold is as much contrived theater as it is authentic tradition…..More South of the Border: 12 Reasons to Retire in Mexico You've heard the buzz. Millions of Americans and Canadians nearing retirement age are looking south. Mexico draws thousands of foreign retirees every year. And those numbers will explode as more baby boomers hit the magical number to let them quit working and start living…..More Mexico City's 'water monster' nears extinction Beneath the tourist gondolas in the remains of a great Aztec lake lives a creature that resembles a monster -- and a Muppet -- with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile…..More In Mexico's drug war, sorting out good guys from bad Many of the mug shots of drug traffickers that appear in the Mexican press show surly looking roughnecks glaring menacingly at the camera. An anticorruption investigation unveiled last week in the Mexican capital, however, made it clear that not everybody enmeshed in the narcotics trade looks the part…..More Mexico's top federal police chief quits Resignation follows charges that gangs had infiltrated crime-fighting units.The top officer of Mexico's federal police force quit amid allegations that drug gangs had infiltrated senior levels of crime-fighting agencies, according to a resignation statement posted Saturday…..More Friday night is always a great time on the Jaltemba Coast Jaime and Hinde for some singing and great food Bavarian gardens for good times and friends And Crazy Nellys for a whole lot of fun!