Sunday is a statutory holiday. Saturday is also observed as a holiday, except by the shops. There is no early-closing day. National holidays are as follows:
New Year (1 January)
Constitution Day (5 February)
Birthday of Benito Juarez (21 March) Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday
Labour Day (1 May)
Bt’s Annuattle of Puebla (5 May)
Presidential Message (1 September)
Independence Day (16 September)
Discovery of America (Dfa de la Raza) (12 October)
Day of the Revolution (20 November)
Christmas Day (25 December).
The Mexican calendar of religious fiestas lists over 5,000 each year
The most widely celebrated are:
Santos Reyes (6 January)
Mother’s Day (10 May)
All Souls’Day (1-2 November)
Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 December).
Pachuca (elevation: 2,426 meters) is the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. Pachuca is said to be the cradle of Mexican Soccer. Workers from Cornwall, England, who came to work Pachuca's silver mines brought the game along with them. Many examples of English architecture still exist.
Pachuca is not much of a tourist city, but there are a few things to see. The 'Reloj Monumental' is the central clock tower, build in 1904 in the city center. There is also the 'Central Cultural Hidalgo,' which is housed in an old monastery and contains museums, a theater, a library, and a
If you are not tied to the European or American summer for times when you are able to travel then the best time to go is between October and April, although there are slight regional variations. The rainy season works its way up from the south beginning in May and running through until August, September and even October. This is also hurricane season along the Caribbean. Although the last couple of years have produced the devastating storms of Hurricane Mitch and lesser-known Hurricane Keith, landfall is relatively rare. Don't be put off by the term 'rainy season'-in most places and
Sports and entertainment in Tijuana City
Tijuana boasts two bullfighting rings, a racecourse and a dog track located in the old Hipódromo de Agua Caliente, the franchise of a soccer team in first division, a Mexican baseball team that plays the league during the summer, professional and university theater, the opera, as well as diverse festivals along the year.
Hurricane halts Mexico travel
Tour operators are holding back tourists from the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, which was hit by Hurricane Emily last week, until hotels reopen and damage is assessed.
Winds of 125mph swept across the popular holiday region on Monday, killing six and forcing the evacuation of 30,000 tourists in Cancun. Many had to camp in a local gymnasium for the night. Some tourists on the island of Cozumel also had to abandon their hotels.
The hurricane continued to the north-east coast and moved inland, travelling westwards. A hurricane warning remained in effect from La Cruz to the Texas border at
UPDATE 1-Mexico July industrial output unexpectedly falls
Mexican industrial output fell an unexpected 1.1 percent in July compared to a year ago, the first decline in four months, as manufacturing output was even weaker than forecasts, the government said on Monday.
Key manufacturing output dropped 2.1 percent in July from a year earlier, according to the finance ministry, with weakness evident in the auto industry from declining car and truck demand in the United States.
Analysts in a Reuters poll had expected a median year-on-year increase of about 2.6 percent in July industrial production. Industrial activity in July rose 0.22 percent from June.
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The excavated pyramid, a man-made mountain, has 8 km of tunnels and some recently discovered frescoes inside; 1 km of tunnel is open to the public, giving an idea of the layers that were superimposed to create the pyramid. The museum near the tunnel entrance has a copy of the frescoes (the originals are not open to the public). â– 1000-1700, US$2 weekdays, free on Sun and holidays, guides charge USS6.50, recommended as there are no signs inside (some guides speak English). From the Zocalo follow Avenida Morelos and cross the railway. The 16th-century chapel of Los Remedios on top
Oaxaca Regional Museum (Museo Regional de Oaxaca): Oaxaca
The Oaxaca Regional Museum is located inside the enchanting exconvent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán. Some of its recently redesigned rooms contain important samples of prehispanic and colonial history and culture. It is housed in a beautiful green stone building attached to Santo Domingo Church. It contains the Zapotec treasures from Tomb Seven at Monte Albán. This and other archaeological sections make the most sense if you visit them after seeing some sites in the Central Valleys.
Hours: The museum is generally open from 10 am. to 8 pm., Tuesday to Sunday. Entry
Mexico Readies First-Ever Absentee Ballot
Mexico Launches Effort to Register Migrants for First-Ever Absentee Balloting
A small army of electoral workers carrying absentee ballot registration forms was deployed Wednesday in airports, land crossings and customs checkpoints along Mexico's border with the United States.
Their mission is to get the thousands of migrants returning home for the holidays to register for the nation's first absentee ballot. Votes from millions of Mexicans living abroad, mostly in the United States, could swing July's presidential election.
Some Mexican migrants in the United States, however, complain a lack of information has made registration confusing and difficult. Many
Mexico school vandal photocopies face for cops
Vandals who broke into and wrecked a northern Mexican primary school over the Christmas holidays were thoughtful enough to leave the photocopied mug shot of one of their gang at the scene of the crime.
Mexican television showed a black-and-white print on Tuesday of the squashed, chubby face and hands of a young boy. The photocopy was made at the school in the northern city of Monterrey and left among smashed chairs and torn books.
Headmistress Maria del Rosario Gomez told Televisa news it was the third time the school had been vandalized, and said
México prepares for voting by holiday visitors
Mexican authorities are setting up special voter registration centers for Mexicans who live abroad but return to their home country for the holidays, as part of the first mass effort to distribute absentee ballots for presidential elections, officials said last Wednesday.
The 15 centers will be located mainly in border cities, as well as in three main urban centers -- México City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
The Federal Electoral Institute has already opened the first two centers in the border city of Mexicali and in Guadalajara, and plan to have the others up and running soon.
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