After a meeting and submitting some paperwork to the Instituto Nacional de Migración so I wouldn’t be deported, I drove east to Colonia Emiliano Zapata Oriente, Mérida. My objective was to find out how to fit hubcaps on my 1994 volcho. I found out, through talking with the owner of Abel Hojalateria y Pintura Automotriz, [...]
Mérida, Mayor Bojorquez said, should be the pride of México. Carolina Cárdenas Sosa focused on what she called the “sexenio de turismo” meaning that the focus of President Calderon’s administration, a six-year term, would be tourism – primarily cultural tourism as a way to generate more riches for our people. Patron Laviada, outgoing Governor of Yucatán, the last to speak in the morning session, mentioned several times that tourism was the motor for economic development in the region. Our “gran ventaja es la cultura Maya” (great advantage is Maya culture). While he did mention that the Maya culture lives, he was one of many who focused on Maya culture in the past and one of the new 7 wonders – Chichén Itzá.