Drama & Diplomacy In A Sultry Mexican Beach Town
I like this book, but I don't like the title: Drama & Diplomacy in a Sultry Mexican Beach Town. The book is not about "drama & diplomacy." It's about one person's life in Puerto Vallarta...
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Bienvenidos a San Blas, a short story
How did Robert Mulligan find himself, in August, in a Mexican jungle, running a small flat-bottomed boat up a sleepy little river into the steamy interior, pointing out tiny alligators to the wives of ...
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Frida - A Novel By Barbara Mujica
Throughout the novel, we see the forceful character of Frida displaying itself
The largest Frida Kahlo exhibit ever has just ended in Mexico City. Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her b...
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No Country For Old Men By Cormac Mccarthy
Cormac McCarthy is best known for his Border Trilogy, three novels set along the Texas-Mexico border, the first of which, All the Pretty Horses, is set almost entirely in Mexico, south of the Te...
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A Reasonably Comfortable Circle In Hell
The loss of the old shoes was not much. But the loss of the cross was something else.
That morning when Michael left his house on Miguel Blanco to head toward the tortillería on Constituci...
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Only Once In A Lifetime - A Novel by Alejandro Grattan
During the late 1970s, the first major Hispanic motion picture, Only Once in a Lifetime, premiered in Texas at the San Antonio Film Festival. The reaction was, according to the city s largest newspaper...
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The Stuff Of Dreams By Alejandro Grattan
Alejandro Grattan's latest novel is a rip-roaring adventure tale which swiftly takes the reader from the bright lights of Hollywood to the mysterious jungles of the Yucatan. The book is filled with int...
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Music & Dance In Mexico
MUSIC
The music of Mexico provides a rich tapestry of rhythm, tone, and variety. Its roots are based on a compelling history of disparate influences.
From the music of the Mariachi, the Corri...
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When Time Was Young
The Malecon in Puerto Vallarta
Photo by Brent Cassie
When Time Was Young
A short story by James Bailey© Jim Bailey 2006 -
It was not, of course, as he ...
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Beautifully Arranged
In the United States those who live on the streets are called homeless, but Martín had a home.
When I moved to La Ribera, a small pueblo just north of Cabo San Lucas in Baj...
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The Calling
The money kept rolling in because those who saw the boy went away in a state of euphoria. When they returned to their homes, ranches, they would tell their friends and family all about the boy Jesus, t...
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Dane Chandos Books
THE DANE CHANDOS BOOKS
COLLECTING BOOKS ABOUT MEXICO?
VILLAGE IN THE SUN
HOUSE IN THE SUN
CANDELARIA'S COOKBOOK
ALL by DANE CHANDOS
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Where Toucan Fly - A Short Story
The marimba band filled the breezy space with a rippling rhythm, a tropical river of notes and glissandos, bird-light tunes. Sancho responded to the music from home with a roll of the hips and shy smil...
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An Olmec Homerun, a short story
When Ramon handed the ball to me, I was pleased to find it was latex, not some synthetic material. It was probably very old, made from raw rubber. This one did not have a human skull inside.
As I hand...
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The Line/La Línea
"A story filled with sex, violence, and drugs, even love, a story of treachery, where only power and money ultimately are valued."
Author Belden Butterfield was born in Argentina, educat...
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Three Tamales for the Señor Part Two
Michael Beauregard has retired from Denver to the Mexican village of Refugio de María, where he rents two upstairs rooms from the Widow García and her daughter, María Elena. With a busy career and even Internet technology behind him, Michael experiences a renewed energy as he becomes acquainted with his neighbors and reconnects with life's simpler pleasures.
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When paradise turns to hell... A chilling tale set in a hot environment
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Watching Pablo Sleep
It's midmorning in Santa Lucía and Claire lies on Pablo's right side watching him sleep. He can't go to sleep unless she watches. This is his belief, and his beliefs infect her, fester like splinters ...
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Suspicious stranger visits a rural tacos al vapor stand
The other day Deovijilda Lara, who owns a tacos al vapor stand in a nearby pueblo Mercado Municipal, was regaling me with tales of her family's Christmas last year. These mostly had to do with comicall...
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Three Tamales for the Señor Part One
As Michael stepped off the bus at the edge of Refugio de María, he felt clean, enthusiastic, like a boy on a new adventure. He threw the straps of the large green pack over one shoulder and bega...
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Bound for Mexico, a short story
From the beginning it had all seemed too perfect, too unreal.
At first Vanessa thought it would be the perfect vacation: a full week on Mexico's Mayan Riviera, as the travel agent had called the...
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Sacred Lake Poems by Bill Frayer
Available from the author
Life in Mexico observed by someone who is bursting with affection for his new country.
I have reviewed a lot of fiction and non-fiction books for Mexico Connect, but I...
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The Captain's Hat
A hat like that could take a man anywhere that people recognized the strength of a working man, the slowly-earned benefit of labor and the wisdom such labor produced.
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Heart's Desire, a short story
Life had never been so good.
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The Sanchez Ghost
A tale of haunted guilt set in Mexico City and in the mind of the haunted protagonist, Pablo.
. . . Omar gazed at the rifle trained at his chest, and no presentiment crossed his brow. He knew it was Pablo's gun; he had gone pheasant hunting with him and his old man in the past among the gullies of hills of valleys extending to the great volcano of Popocatépetl. . . .
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