Sex mall highlights changing attitudes in Mexico
In the heart of Mexico City’s historic district, a Colonial-style building houses a sexual revolution of sorts.
It’s a new mall dedicated to sex and adult entertainment. There are 100 shops in all, specializing in lingerie, alluring scents, erotic jewelry and publications.
“It’s very new,” said sex mall developer Alberto Kibrit. “We don’t have a lot of competition.”
Sex is a growth industry in Mexico as more people are open to explore the topic in this predominantly Catholic country.
The mall is brightly painted and well-lit. The developer wanted to create an open atmosphere, one he hopes reflects Mexico’s new attitude about sex.
“It’s something healthy,” said shopper Bernardo Frias.
His girlfriend, Angelica Marina, found the stores “very interesting.” Later, they planned to visit the food court, where the lunch crowd is treated to a show.
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The ever-changing face of campaign politics in Mexico
Once more the unimaginable seems unavoidable in Mexican politics.
Barely two weeks following the start of what looked to be a ho-hum event, Mexican presidential campaigning took another turn in which the 2006 election outcome may again become unpredictable.
The split in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) ranks has turned into a mutiny that not only threatens party unity and its 2006 election results, but eventually the party itself. Earlier Roberto Madrazo, the PRI boss and leading presidential hopeful, had fought back a showdown with a group of PRI governors, and he
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Lazaro Cardenas
Plaza Bonita Mall
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Attraction Type: Historical Buildings
Fewer Gray Whales Migrating to Warmth of Mexico
The number of gray whales making a yearly migration from the icy North Pacific to breed in Mexico's warm lagoons has dropped this year, possibly because of changing weather patterns, scientists say.
Whale food shortages near Canada and Alaska mean that some of the thousands of whales that make the 5,000-mile journey have departed late or even stayed behind this year, researcher William M. Megill said.
Other researchers said Thursday that varying temperatures in the Bering Sea could be changing migration patterns.
Megill, a lecturer at the University of Bath in Britain, said
Sergio Bustamante Gallery
Plaza Bonita Mall
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Attraction Type: Museums and Art Galleries
Mexico's flood of tired and poor divides America
LAST year the Pew Hispanic Centre polled Mexicans on their attitudes about migrating to the United States.
Asked if they would go to live in the US if they had the means and opportunity, more than four in 10 said yes. More than 20 per cent said they were inclined to go without authorisation.
Last year more than 1 million tried, but were caught. An unknown number succeeded.
Nobody knows how many unauthorised migrants are in the US. The Pew Centre, the most authoritative research organisation on Latino issues, estimates 11 million.
The issue has been a
Tempting shoppers from Mexico into Texas
It's not just family and friends that draw travelers from Mexico to Texas this time of the year.
"It's shopping there. A lot of shopping," said Mexico City shopper Jenny Lo-Re.
She timed her shopping spree to take advantage of holiday bargains.
"I need clothes, I need bags, I need things for the hair. I need everything," Lo-Re said.
Prices for brand names are steep in Mexico, and not just in the designer boutiques. Shoppers say it pays to cross the border and stock up, even with travel expenses.
Shoppers from Mexico spend more than
Spain to build Latin America's largest tourism resort in Mexico
The Spanish tourism firm, Mall, will invest 450 million U.S. dollars in Mexico to build the largest resort in all of Latin America, the firm's President Julio Fernando Noval said in a statement on Friday.
Land has been reserved for the resort's construction along the coastline of the Mexican state of Campeche, and it is expected to begin operating at the start of 2008, Noval said.
This center will give Campeche an "important economic boost" and generate around 5,000 jobs in the construction phase and 2,500 jobs when it opens, Noval
Gay kiss in pool causes stir in Mexico
A gay kiss in a swimming pool, which two men say got them thrown out of a luxury hotel, has caused a stir in traditionally macho Mexico, where open displays of homosexuality are frowned upon.
Gerardo Eliud and his partner, Samir Habdu, told police in Los Cabos, a plush beach resort city popular with U.S. tourists, that security guards beat them up and threw them into the street with their luggage after spotting them kissing in the hotel pool in December.
But when leftist deputies demanded an investigation into the incident in Congress this
Flavorful Mexico on Masa menu
The bright room with sleek lines and big views of the Nicollet Mall is a long way from Saul Chavez's birthplace in Morelia, Mexico. But it probably felt very much like home on a recent Saturday night.
The aroma of roasting poblano peppers filled the kitchen during the opening of Masa, D'Amico and Partners' adventure in Mexican alta cocina, or high cuisine. Carnitas, Chavez's favorite braised pork dish when he was a boy, was being scooped onto small tortillas. A pot of drunken beans simmered nearby.
Masa could have been Casa Chavez that night. His mother, Maria Reynalda
Thacher Proffitt Announces Mexico City Office Relocation
Thacher Proffitt & Wood LLP, a 150-
year-old law firm, today announced the relocation of its Mexico City office to
Paseo Tamarindos, Colonia Bosques de las Lomas. The relocation is one of many
highlights in the firm's substantial growth. "The Torre Arcos is one of the
most prestigious addresses in Mexico City," said Boris A. Otto, Office
Managing Partner. "We chose this location because after six years we outgrew
our previous accommodations. The new space will provide sufficient room to
meet our goals for continued expansion."
Paul D. Tvetenstrand, Chairman and Managing Partner, noted, "This
expansion
