An excruciating mosquito-borne illness that arrived less than a year ago in the Americas is raging across the region, leaping from the Caribbean to the Central and South American mainland, and infecting more than 1 million people. Some cases already have emerged in the United States. While the disease, called chikungunya, usually is not fatal,...Read More

On Tuesday, September 30 between 5 PM and 8 PM you are invited to visit the main plaza with your phone, tablet, laptop, or other internet device, connect to the local free wifi, and say something positive about Puerto Vallarta on Twitter (or other favorite network like Facebook), and use hash tag #PuertoVallarta The City...Read More

The liberal political party of Mexico, Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) has began a public campaign to grow support of marijuana usage for medical reasons and to decriminalize marijuana up to 30 grams. The PRD overwhelmingly supports the legalization of drugs in Mexico. Currently marijuana usage for medical conditions is illegal and set by...Read More

Continuing the festivities in Puerto Vallarta to celebrate International Tourism Day, this evening brings “Tastes are in Vallarta”. The city invites you to enjoy the gastronomic pleasure of Puerto Vallarta outside of City Hall between 8 PM – 10 PM. One of the main attractions of the city is its varied cuisine of national and...Read More

“It’s not even October 2 yet and the university students are already in the streets,” said a construction worker as he watched thousands of demonstrators from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) stream into the major thoroughfares of Mexico’s capital city on Thursday. Up to 8,000 students from all major IPN campuses were out to reject...Read More