Merida, Mexico News

A hot-pink flash appears a quarter-mile away, a bright line against the dark green of the mangroves and just above the milky water of the estuary in Celestun, Mexico.

In MA©rida, in the Yucatan, people dance in the streets. Every Sunday evening.

Patricio Patron Laviada, former Governor of Yucatan and current Attorney General for the Environment in Mexico, ordered the evacuation of all animals at risk for dying at the Tizimin Zoo late last week.

Above: From left to right, Tony Trevino of the Weld Clerk and Recorder's Office, Brandon Jansson of Brandon's Mobile Lube Plus, Brandee Rosales of James Salon Spa, Sage Stevenson a Mary Kay representative, and Alex Estevez of Anderson & Whitney, PC., Dec.

'Flying down to Mexico was a new experience for me' 'I still have a long way to go' Shalini Gupta If there was ever any doubt about the interest in science amongst our youth, India's spectacular performance at this year's International Physics Olympiad should prove it wrong.

This performance is one that many have been waiting for. This singer-composer-pianist has sold over 250 million records and has had more than 50 hit songs.

Will the world come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, as predicted by the Mayan calendar and used as the theme of the movie "2012"? Not according to Jorge Ruz, co-owner of Hacienda Xcanatun, a restored 18th-century hacienda on the outskirts of Merida.

MEXICO CITY>> The U.S. government has spent only 2 percent of the more than $1 billion it has pledged to help Mexico win its battle against drug traffickers, according to a government study released Thursday.

We knew that the Instituto TecnolA3gico de Conkal has developed a drought-resistant grass and that they have been giving seeds to Yucatan's ranchers and even to all of Mexico over a period of some weeks now.

Movement has been important to Thierry Raymond, even before he was a dance artist.

Osiris Hoil tells me that he's from Yucatan, Mexico, near Merida, and I tell him that I just visited the peninsula this summer.A We instantly bond.

Mexico's Oldest Resident Passes Away Ana Maria Perez Gonzalez has passed away in Colima at the ripe old age of 119.

A recent environmental summit set ambitious new targets for reducing greenhouse gasses.

Jim sips his martini and puts the cigarette back in to his mouth. He exhales what appears to be a minimal amount of smoke.

For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.

The travel company president who has arranged Mayor Ray Nagin's upcoming trip to Merida Mesico which was reported in the Times Picayune has responded angrily to the TP story.

Getting invited to a destination wedding is a bit of a mixed blessing. On the plus side, you're forced to take a vacation, potentially to somewhere you've never been.

New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin speaks during a press conference in Oct. Carlos Monge says the story was based on a preliminary itinerary, and that the final junket will include far more events for the mayor.

MERIDA, Mexico, Nov 12 - Lawrence Amos travelled from the Arctic at the top of the world to the tropical middle to recite in a soft voice the ongoing destruction of his home by climate change.

Less than a month after he jetted off to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is planning another tropical junket: a four-day, taxpayer-financed excursion next month to Merida, Mexico , featuring a private tour of ancient ruins.