With the El Cuyo Beach Festival just weeks away, hotel operators and tourism businesses in the small coastal town of Yucatán are counting on the event to boost occupancy during the summer vacation season. But persistent power outages and water shortages are tempering their optimism. Municipal authorities have scheduled the festival over two weekends: Friday,…
A new monument is coming to one of this city’s most debated public spaces. A replica of Estela 18 de Uxmal will be installed at the Remate, the entrance to Paseo de Montejo, to honor the role of Maya women in the region’s ancestral history. The announcement from Mayor Cecilia Patrón Laviada came during the…
Dog and cat owners on Mérida’s east side will soon have a new place to take their pets for a checkup. Farmacias Similares has confirmed a location for its veterinary brand, SimiPet Care, at Circuito Colonias and Calle 25-A in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood, next to a 24-hour Farmacias Similares location facing CETIS 112. The…
The maintenance crews and museum guides who kept Mérida’s biggest park running are suddenly gone. Nearly 100 workers at Gran Parque La Plancha say they were let go this week by the federal company that runs the park, and they are now taking their case to labor authorities. The company, Grupo Aeroportuario, Ferroviario, de Servicios…
Mérida now has a place to stay that skips the usual hotel room altogether. Kapsul Express bills itself as the only capsule hotel in Mérida. Instead of a standard room, guests book a private sleeping pod, a format that started in Japan decades ago and has slowly made its way into a few Mexican cities….
Green jerseys, waving flags and a fair number of costumes filled the plaza around Mérida’s Monumento a la Patria Tuesday night, as fans didn’t even wait for the final whistle to start celebrating Mexico’s 2-0 win over Ecuador in the World Cup’s round of 32. By the time the match wrapped up at Estadio Azteca…
Two massive solar farm projects planned for the jungle of southern Yucatán have been permanently canceled following a seven-year legal battle waged by Maya communities who argued the developments would devastate their land, water supply, and way of life. The projects — known as Ticul A and Ticul B — were designed to cover more…
A tanker truck tore through a recently installed crochet canopy on Mérida’s Gastronomic Corridor, leaving holes, dangling threads, and a section of the colorful textile draped over the side of Calle 47. Witnesses said the truck was traveling along Calle 47 when it snagged the installation, which had been suspended over the street between Calles…
Authorities, teachers, students, agricultural producers, and residents came together in Tekax last week for the First Citizens’ Forum for Situational Diagnosis in Artificial Intelligence — an initiative led by the federal Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (Secihti, Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación) to identify pressing local challenges and build community-grounded technological…
Mérida-born actress Wendy Braga says landing a role in the comedy series “Riquísimos… por cierto” checked off a professional wish list item she had carried for years: working with producer Elías Solorio. The show, a spin-off of the long-running sitcom “Vecinos,” follows the López Pérez family after they inherit a fortune from an eccentric uncle…
Mérida’s city government has a new headache after spending months planting trees along Circuito Colonias that now have to be dug up and moved. City officials say the median trees between the El Enlace overpass and the Miguel Hidalgo traffic circle will be relocated after Mexico’s Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT) flagged the…
A 19th-century family tomb in Mérida’s General Cemetery has a new lease on life after a joint restoration by the city government and a local heritage group. The Vega Ibarra family mausoleum, a neo-Gothic structure with pointed arches and pinnacles along the cemetery’s main avenue, was repaired through Mérida’s municipal facade-rescue program. The project cost…
Yucatán didn’t get an official day off, but that didn’t stop hundreds of soccer fans from finding a way to watch Mexico’s opening match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Thursday — even as a tropical storm system soaked the state. The biggest organized crowd in Mérida gathered at the Unidad Deportiva Inalámbrica, the…
Heavy machinery rolling through a protected ecological reserve south of Mérida has triggered a federal enforcement action, the latest in an ongoing struggle to preserve one of the city’s most vital green spaces. Mexico’s federal environmental enforcement agency, Profepa, closed down a property in the ejido of Dzununcán after inspectors confirmed that roughly 1 hectare…
More than two decades after a Canadian sports bar chain planted its first flag in Mexico — in Mérida — Boston’s Pizza has opened its fifth location in the city, this time at the new Prime Center shopping complex on the northern outskirts of town. The opening, which took place on Thursday, marks the 11th…
She’s 93, still making art, and now on the guest list for a major new event in Mexico’s southeast. Yoko Ono is among 75 artists announced for the Bienal de Yucatán, the first large-scale international contemporary art biennial in Mexico — set to open in Mérida this November. No specific date for her appearance in…
New operating rules that took effect Wednesday open the door for privately run museums in the city of Mérida to apply for annual subsidies of up to MX$600,000 (about US$30,000) from the Yucatán state government — though there’s a catch: this year’s entire budget was already spent before the rules were even published. Yucatán’s Secretaría…
The Michelin Guide finally came knocking on Wednesday night, and three Yucatán restaurants came away with a star apiece. The Michelin Guide Mexico 2026 ceremony in Guadalajara delivered Yucatán’s first stars in the guide’s history. Chef Roberto Solís picked up two stars for his Huniik and La Barra de Huniik on Calle 60 in Mérida,…
Chichén Itzá is expected to return to normal operations today after a brief closure triggered by a protest over the site’s new visitor facility — the latest flare-up in a months-long dispute between local workers and authorities over how the landmark archaeological zone is managed. INAH, Mexico’s national heritage agency, said the Centro de Atención…
Mexico’s most celebrated journalist and author marks her birthday with no particular ceremony planned — just a meal with her three children.
Evolución AC has stopped actively taking in new animals some time ago, but that hasn’t stopped people from leaving animals at the gate anyway.
There’s no better way to understand Valladolid than from the saddle of a bicycle. The streets fan out in an orderly colonial grid, the terrain is flat, and within a few kilometers of the main square, you’ll find cenotes, haciendas, a 16th-century convent, and Maya villages where life moves at a pace the tour buses…
A kid from Mérida who grew up watching American movies decided, at 17, that New York was the place to find out what he was made of. That instinct has taken Manuel Zopiyaxtle from Yucatán classrooms to Off-Broadway stages and international film festivals — with plenty of hard lessons in between. Zopiyaxtle trained at the…
A sculptor who left Vienna half a century ago and eventually found her artistic home in the Yucatán village of Cholul has received Mexico’s highest honor in the visual arts. Gerda Gruber received the Medalla Bellas Artes 2026 in Visual Arts from Mexico’s Secretariat of Culture and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura…
That’s all for now
That’s all for now