Merida, Mexico News

Editors Note: : It had been awhile since we updated this article. Years ago, finding quality furniture in Merida seemed difficult.

To the Editor: We collected Asian tiger mosquitoes, Aedes albopictus , in Cancun in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico in September 2011.

They've opened 23 Mexican restaurants La Parilla, notable by the yellow bull mascot in cities like Cancun, Playa Del Carmen and Cozumel, dating back to the restaurant's inception in 1975.

Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez are spending their time between shifts in heavily guarded hotels after a wave of killings targeting police.

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Punto I Coma Monte Himalaya 815, Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec; 2623-0288; puntoicoma.com 'It's not safe to walk and shop in D.F., so this is one place where you can go for everything: coffee, accessories, home items, baby clothes, bathing suits.

Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema, the con man extraordinaire from Fayetteville who spent years in an Afghan prison for running a private jail and torture chamber while claiming to be a secret Pentagon operative, has died in Mexico.