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Background: The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1 December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair elections.

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By heraclio
September 29th 2008

Feeling in love

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Chetumal, 24 abril 1990. We left Belize-City on the 10 o'clock bus for Chetumal this morning arriving in Mexico at 14.00 h. afternoon. We plan to get on the overnight bus to Cancun at 23.35 h. so we'll save on a hotel room. Since James is still seething with sheer anger at what he considers Peter's "betrayal", it seemed a good idea to leave him alone with our backpacks in Chetumal's main zocalo while Nora and me went on a little city tour by foot. We walk on Chetumal's wide boulevards holding hands and enjoying the feeling of young people being [View Full Entry]

By heraclio
August 12th 2008

Young black bucks from Belize.

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Chetumal, 20-01-1990. My hunch about these belizians staying en masse at our hotel, could very well be true. According to some mexicans we met in a bar last night most of these belizians just come across the border for all sorts of shady businesses quickly crossing back into Belize before getting themselves into all sorts of problems with the mexican police. needless to say that soon enough after we checked in, they came over to our room to check us out - any money to make from these two rednecks from Europe? Well, they couldn't possibly know that me and James [View Full Entry]

By heraclio
August 12th 2008

Una casa nocturna.

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Chetumal. 21-01-1990. Giving in to James' constant moaning about how much he needs to get laid, we went to a Casa Nocturna - the mexican word for whorehouse - together with our new found "friends" from Belize. I have a strong suspicion they are slowly getting pissed of with us, i mean we keep drinking their cervezas and smoking thier cigarettes while pushing these so called business conversations to another day. We might do wise to leave Chetumal sooner rather than later!!! The casa nocturna was way out of town and what i think about the prices for the senoritas is [View Full Entry]

By heraclio
August 12th 2008

Hitchhiking in Mexico.

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Chetumal, 19-01-1990. Deciding to leave the public transpotation system of the mexican transport world alone, we left Coba by foot and once we got to the highway - well it looked like a highway but with hardly any cars on it - we just put our thump out in the universal way of asking in sign language for a free ride. Despite the almost absolute absence of cars, we got a ride in no time from an american woman to Tulum. Tulum has got it own set of Mayan ruins and turned out to be a good place for lunch before [View Full Entry]

By SavoirVivre
December 25th 2007

¡Feliz Navidad!

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Chichen Itza
El Castillo, de hoofdtempel van Chichen Itza. Erg indrukwekkend ondanks de vele toeristen.

Hola gente van het goede leven! Te veel te vertellen eigenlijk en is een tijdje geleden dat ik een bericht heb achtergelaten... Alles gaat heel lekker hier. Heb gister mi padre in goede gezondheid aangetroffen in zijn hotel in Chetumal, Z-Mexico. Vanaf Isla Mujeres ben ik via Valladolid (Chichen Itza), Tulum en Chetumal naar Belize gereisd. Belize was echt te mooi voor woorden, beetje chillen op Caye Caulker en in San Pedro (voor details: http://www.musica.com/video.asp?video=617 -- Haha!!!). Belize is echt wat anders dan Mexico. Het is een voormalige slavenkolonie van Engeland. Veel [View Full Entry]

By prokop
August 22nd 2007

Chetumal - Hurricane Time

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Hurricane Dean
And here we are ...

Ola amigos .. So, we thought all was safe and well in Chetumal, but it sure wasn´t. People sleeping in the bus station, franticly trying to get out of there, everybody getting ready for the hurricane that was heading exactly this way. We arrived at our hostel at 04:30, and were met by people still up, unable to sleep. Two ( very nervous) americans, a (confused) german, a (happy) canadian and an (pleasant) englishman, the hostess, Lilia (very friendly), Kevin the (crazy and horny) dog and us two danish (looking for trouble). Especially the americans couldn´t understand why we came to [View Full Entry]

By MEXICO BONITO
August 19th 2007

Hurricane Dean

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Preparing for Hurricane Dean

We were well prepared for Hurricane Dean, unlike many other tourists. As soon as we heard the news of the hurricane from Carlos' parents 4 days before it was going to hit we made our plans. We first bought plane tickets on-line flying out of Chetumal to Mexico City. At the time of when we bought the tickets the hurricane was suppose to hit further north, but that changed a couple of days before we arrived in Chetumal. Our tickets were for Monday the 20th at 1:00 p.m. so we gave ourselves 12 hours before the hurricane was suppose to hit...good [View Full Entry]

By the soul cultivator
June 7th 2007

One wonder too many.

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Trying to grab the spot light.
Canote cave swimming.....

It pissed down with rain so we went to do some thing I actually found quite interesting. ‘Cenote’ cave exploring, this is a natural underground ‘sink hole’ found in a near by place called Dzitnup. This is where the Mayans used to get their fresh water, maybe washed their pots and played cave man games with their mates. These Cenote’s have been created over MILLIONS of years by drops of rainwater that slowly dripped through the Yucatan’s granite earth creating these beautiful hanging stalactites, (Demo; hands hanging downwards and wiggle…a Harry Hill [View Full Entry]

By AliceWanderingLand
April 10th 2007

Long Bus ride to the heat

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Leaving Tuxatepec I was feeling sad, not wanting to be the only gringa in a place. Also the bus station was absolutely crazy with travellers - had thought of not staying the one night when I arrived but buses were sold out- when I awoke I was thinking of going to the Tuxlas - a low hilly region in the south of Veracruz state on my way back to the yucutan pennisula - but somehow changed my mind and in a panic bought a bus ticket to veracruz city - most popular destination. The bus trip on second class bus on [View Full Entry]

By life in the BZE
April 10th 2007

Bustling Metropolis

North America » Mexico » Quintana Roo » Chetumal

Heaven
Possibly my favorite discovery in Chetumal

Alas, it has been a while since any postings, and there are so many stories to tell. On a whim, a few friends and I decided to venture into Mexico for a weekend. The travel bug was biting again, and we all had a thirst for some a change of scenery. Fortunately, a trip like this requires little-to-no planning, and that was the beauty of it. On Saturday morning at 4:00 a.m we found ourselves down at the bus stop, pillows in hand, wondering what we were about to get into. The bus was long, though we arrived in Mexico, [View Full Entry]

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