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2. September 2010 | 19:41

Mexico: Rosewood hotel to open in San Miguel de Allende

An ultra-luxury hotel resort, the Rosewood San Miguel de Allende, is set to open in the historic city in central Mexico early next year. The 67 guest rooms and suites will be decorated in the rustic Spanish-Mexican style that distinguishes the colonial town. Suites, some up to 4,000 square feet, will include local artwork, wood-beamed ceilings […] (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:27:42)

In Queretaro, a rich and colorful past and present

There are plenty of reasons to visit QuerÃ©taro, but it’s the instability and conflict and violence that finally won me over. The instability of 1810, that is. The conflict of 1848. The violence of 1867. All set amid 18th century colonial architecture, surrounded these days by commerce and… (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:35:17)

Mineral de Pozos: A Mexican ghost town lives on as an artist colony

I arrived in eerie, old Mineral de Pozos in the middle of a half-sunny afternoon, with cotton-candy cloud shadows creeping all over the adobe rubble, the reclaimed ruins, the cactus thickets and the little-trod cobblestone streets. Never heard of the place, a hotel clerk had said in Spanish… (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:33:15)

Planning your trip to Pozos, Mexico

If you go THE BEST WAY TO POZOS From LAX, connecting service to QuerÃ©taro is offered on Continental and Mexicana. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $538. Taxi rides between QuerÃ©taro and Pozos cost about $40. TELEPHONES From the U.S. dial 011 (the international dia… (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:33:25)

Big spring break group? Try renting a house!

My cousin booked an amazing wedding at the adventure resort Costa Azul, in the tiny Mexican village of San Francisco about a half hour north of Puerto Vallarta. The town was perfect: Cobblestone streets, a beach known for its surfing, turtle releases at sunset. There was only one catch: Cos… (News Source: Los Angeles Times - 15:33:35)

Storm can’t rest on season triumphs against Mercury

The Seattle Storm-Phoenix Mercury rivalry during the 2010 WNBA season made a clear case that not all 5-0 records are alike. (News Source: Tacoma News Tribune - 07:19:40)

A bueno reason to celebrate

There is always a good reason to party. But here is a very, verybueno reason to party. (News Source: Santa Maria Times - 05:56:42)

Genocide denier running secret ops in Pakistan?

Two years ago, Duane Clarridge sat down to be interviewed by John Pilger for Pilger’s series “The War on Democracy.” Clarridge, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer was indicted in 1991 for his involvement in covering up the Iran-Contra affair, and retired from the agency in 1987. (News Source: Online Journal - 04:30:22)

Mexican towns hold on to history

My earliest political memory is of a school trip long ago to the Angel of Independence, the golden statue atop a soaring column in the heart of Mexico City. (News Source: The Columbus Dispatch - 10:19:39)

Clandestine In Chile, By Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez

In the aftermath of Chile’s 1973 coup, which resulted in the deaths of its leader, Allende, and the start of Pinochet’s bloody dictatorship, MÃ¡rquez vowed he would not write fiction until Pinochet had fallen. He did in fact, publish in the interim, and this 1985 non-fictive account, (translated by Asa Zatz) of an exiled filmmaker’s covert visit to Chile is seen as his act of revenge against the … (News Source: Independent - 23:15:51)

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