In time for the month in which we honor women, SoHo Galleries has a new exhibit in a new location. The Women’s Exhibition at Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores Yucatán at the Harbor Mall brings fine art to the gubernatorial office. The new SRE offices are on the second floor of the fashion mall. Aside from…
Tatiana Echeverría Delgado studied economics in her native Cuba but says she was always an artist at heart. She and her husband, Urbi Álvarez Blanco, made their living as artisans in the city of Santa Clara but wanted to offer their child a better life than the Communist island could offer. “Living under a totalitarian…
My mother and I are talking about how much life has changed in the 47 years since she moved to Yucatán. “I’ve come a long way since North Vancouver,” she says. “My city is a cosmopolitan hub now, but in the 1970s, North Van was a pretty small place.” In 1976, Joanna van der Gracht…
Mexico’s FEMSA has sold its minority share of Heineken stock to U.S. billionaire businessman Bill Gates. Although “not a big beer drinker,” Gate apparently thought buying a 3.76% stake in Dutch drinks giant Heineken Holding NV would go down smoothly. “When I end up at something like a baseball game, I drink light beer to…
Born in New York City in 1951, Cristina Baker was just a toddler when she moved with her family to Mexico. After high school, she returned to the United States and studied a BA in Latin American Studies at Smith College. “When they gave me the option to spend my senior year abroad, I chose…
To capture the real spirit of Mercado Lucas de Gálvez, Pim Schalkwijk stripped much of it away. The clutter of merchandise, the kinetic movement, the clashing colors — all gone. The acclaimed photographer took market vendors — who work there daily selling fruit, butchering meat, arranging flowers, cutting hair — into his pop-up photo studio that operated for…
The budget airline connecting Mérida travelers to Cozumel and Chetumal has shut down. According to the Reuters news agency, Aeromar announced the “definitive end” of operations on Wednesday. The Mexican airline had aggressively competitive fares. In 2017, they advertised temporary 100-peso fares — around five bucks — one way out of Mérida. Then in September 2022, Cozumel…
As of yesterday, the cost of driving the Mérida-Cancún highway broke the 600-peso mark, to 608 to be precise.
A chance to explore six private coastal homes comes Saturday, March 4, with the Progreso Home Tour. The annual fundraiser has expanded in scope. One home brings ticketholders west of the International Malecon for the first time since the yearly tours began. Another spot on the map will be a nearly finished new-construction project, instructive…
Archaeologists in Piste have revealed a newly discovered group of structures at Chichén Itzá believed to have been part of an elite housing complex in antiquity. The complex would represent “the first residential group where a ruler lived with his entire family,” archaeologist Francisco Perez Ruiz told the Reuters news agency. The area, known as…
Well over 100 protestors lined the streets surrounding Mérida’s bullfighting ring demanding an end to the barbaric blood sport
Yucatán is planning to add up to 30 electric buses, constructed in the style of a European tram, to Mérida’s public transportation system. The exact length of the commute from any one point to the Mayan Train Station in Teya is yet to be confirmed, but has been described by city officials as “very swift.” …
A self-guided tour of 26 private art studios will raise money for the Merida English Library. MEL has enlisted 43 artists from Mexico, Argentina, Canada, France, Spain and the United States to participate in the event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 18 and 19. Artwork will be on sale at…
A tourist from Poland was arrested, and assaulted by other tourists, after being the latest to attempt to ascend the ancient pyramid at Chichén Itzá illegally. The visitor, identified as Pawel Tomasz, was detained by authorities on Saturday afternoon when he descended the famous temple of Kukulkán, perhaps Mexico’s most iconic site. Other tourists were…
A new Yucatán Giving Outreach sustainable project will be launched at the Wired and Reclaimed exhibit. SoHo Galleries is collaborating with Yucatan Giving Outreach (YGO). A portion of the sales will go to a sustainable community project. Recyclable items will be used to create eco-bricks for food planters in the vulnerable area of San Antonio…
If you smoke, do it at home, now that Mexico has begun one of the world’s toughest smoking ban. The law, approved in 2021 and enacted Sunday, also includes a ban on tobacco advertising. This expands a 2008 law that created smoke-free spaces in bars, restaurants and workplaces. Now, the law is an outright ban…
Residents who wanted a park in Altabrisa got their way when Mérida announced a 20-acre “green lung” called Parque Tho’. Parque Tho’, under the shadows of the twin Country Towers complex and a busy shopping mall, will have conventional recreational space as well as shopping, a bandstand, shopping, and kiosks for paying bills. Construction begins…
For culture lovers, this has been the season without the Teatro Peón Contreras, the historic opera house that was badly damaged in a fire on Nov. 1. While early on, officials had hoped that Mérida’s most historic performance venue would re-open by spring 2023, now they say that restoration work won’t even begin until June…
INAH employees are accused of profiting from Chichén Itzá’s shutdown by allowing their own visitors to roam the ancient pyramid and observatory.
Few expats from the United States left home for political reasons, despite the idea catching fire on Google’s search engine after every presidential election or controversial Supreme Court decision. Although Gallup polls suggest that as many as 15% of Americans want to leave the country permanently. But only a small fraction of them have taken…
Nirvana, a new Filux Lab exhibition, includes nine art installations that demonstrate different perspectives on the power of pure light. Julio Bekhor’s neon-and-vinyl light wheel welcomes visitors. The next two rooms contain immersive experiences: a long, colorful “worm” created by Mexico City artists Rodrigo Olvera and Daikoku Reyes followed by Orfeo Quaglata’s three glass sculptures…
Construction at Xibalba theme park on the outskirts of Valladolid has been completed for some time now. Yet there is no firm date for the park to finally open after a surprise inspection by federal authorities last year detected several problems. “The developers used dynamite to destroy walls between cenotes to create an artificial river…
“Today, a woman can be president of Mexico,” said Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum. Speaking in Yucatán, the likely presidential frontrunner noted that women are leading Mexico in historic numbers. At a policy conference at the Technological Institute of Yucatán, Sheinbaum said that girls today can be inspired by successful women in the current leadership. …
Husbands and fathers in Yucatán will be forced to do domestic chores and comply with their share of rearing children under a proposal before the legislature. The initiative to reform the Law for Equality between Men and Women was presented by the PAN lawmaker Dafne López Osorio. “Cleaning the house is not the task of…
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