Comments on: A short history of immigration in Roma and Condesa

By: Lydia Carey

Lydia Carey — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:48:01 +0000

In reply to Robert Burns.

Unfortunately I know nothing about Puerto Pescaño, as I have never been there, how unfortunate that your wife felt that way. I do live in Roma however, on one of the neighborhood’s most touristy avenues, and I can say that while you might hear snippets of English and other foreign languages (the same as every major cosmopolitan city in the world), the overwhelming majority of people who live here, work here, and enjoy this neighborhood are still speaking Spanish.

By: Lydia Carey

Lydia Carey — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:40:43 +0000

In reply to Chiapas Traveler.

My intent in saying that we should separate the people from the systems was an encouragement to be kind to one another and to try and understand that we are all part of economic and class systems that we have little or no individual control over.

By: robert-0

robert-0 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 18:01:26 +0000

In reply to Roberto.

I’d like to see a little evidence of this sweeping and improbable claim.

By: Robert Burns

Robert Burns — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 05:51:18 +0000

“everywhere one goes in the aforementioned neighborhoods mentioned, you will hear English spoken and be offered English-language menus.” My wife and were in Puerto Peñasco last week and were shocked to see so much English & Spanglish. She, mexicana, doesn’t read, write, or talk in English and she felt really put out. There’s more to gentrification than inflation.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:44:50 +0000

Whenever you see the Arab garments and flags you know that the cause has been hijacked by the Muslim Brotherhood. They are actively causing social division in the US, Canada and Europe. It’s sad to see this activity here in Mexico.

By: PATRICK O'HEFFERNAN

PATRICK O'HEFFERNAN — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:43:01 +0000

`On Juy 4 the municipal president of Chapala, an area if Mexico with an extremely high density of Expat, posted a letter praising the Expat community in Chapala, thanking it for its deep engagement with the local Mexican community, contributing not only money, but time and energy and expertise to Mexican organizations, and coming to the rescue of the municipality when it was in a financial crisis. Many, many Expats speak some or good Spanish, participate in the customs and events of the Mexican community, and do everything they can to be part of and improve the living standards of everyone in Chapala. Chapala boasts the only bilingual newspaper in Jalisco, a culture and education center for both epats and Mexicans, packed Spanish classes , and many, many organizations run by joint Mexican-Expat directors. There is is inflation, especially in housing, but there is also building going on. While it is not perfect, it shows that an expat community that is deeply engaged in the culture and community of Mexico can make it work.

By: fcenteno360@gmail.com

fcenteno360@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:52:37 +0000

Every city, and even smaller communities in the world, is economically stratified. Everyone has “a right to the city” in that you settle into an area which is affordable to you. At what point is a city or community perfectly economically balanced between the haves and have-nots? Achieving such an ideal would require heavy intervention by public officials to meet its public goals, not market or investment goals. That said, Mexico today is geared to attract investors in its nat’l goal to rank as a Top Ten nat’l economy.

By: gringaryan@gmail.com

gringaryan@gmail.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:40:21 +0000

Soñia Diaz recently wrote that her perception was that Russian trolls are also creating animosity and aggression just as a way to create political chaos (as they do elsewhere). And plus, who are those who aren’t part of the organized protestors who are masked and violent?

By: Chiapas Traveler

Chiapas Traveler — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:24:07 +0000

from the article . . . “We must learn to separate our economic systems (and our governments) from the people who function within those structures . . .” I disagree . . . the separation of the economy ‘and our governments’ FROM THE PEOPLE living within said “economy & government” is a ( if not THE ) problem . . . Kings & Queens, Czars, Emperors, Monarchs, Authoritarians represent that separation, and history has not been kind to that approach . . .

By: Skooby

Skooby — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:44:40 +0000

With inflation, many Mexicans (who are already envious) to wealthy Mexicans and foreigners are even more hateful now. It’s very obvious, that’s the main issue. The amount you could leave as a tip is the total amount that many make in one day. But they don’t have a problem taking that money, they just want you to leave.