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.
June 19th 2008North America » Mexico » Sinaloa » Los Mochis The railway trip from Creel to Los Mochis was absolutely fantastic. OK so it“s not the Grand Canyon but I am happy to say that this time I wasn“t feeling under the weather and I was able to appreciat ... [full story]
February 12th 2008North America » Mexico » Sinaloa » Mazatlan
Leaving Thailand was hard …. but preparing for Mazatlan compensated !!!!
Our flight back to LA from Bangkok was uneventful. It was the shortest time we had ever spent in ... 5 photos[full story]
December 2nd 2006North America » Mexico » Sinaloa » Mazatlan mazatlan was the last beach town we visited before heading to los mochis, where we began our 16 hour copper canyon train ride. ... 15 photos[full story]
February 24th 2008North America » Mexico » Sinaloa » Mazatlan Hola Amigos...
Long time, no update. I promise to back date things and catch up but so far so good. Made it to Matzatlan today via a ferry from the mainland. The ride over here was almost 20 hours an ... [full story]
January 28th 2008North America » Mexico » Sinaloa Sometimes the best laid plans... well I forget how that saying ends.
Instead of travelling to the shrimp rich isle Mexiclatin we instead chose to drive to San Blas.
A little bit of paradise, especia ... [full story]
January 26th 2008North America » Mexico » Sinaloa » Mazatlan I may have found hope for all of you baseball starved and freezing fanatics. The mexican pacific coast league season, starts in late october ends in late febraury. We went last night and it game thr ... [full story]
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