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News: Atencion Expatriates
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Famous worldwide for its mild climate, thermal springs and colonial era architecture, San Miguel de Allende has attracted a large community of foreign residents. Exact figures are difficult to obtain since Medicare, the U.S. public health system, cannot be claimed abroad, and many expatriates return regularly to the United States to receive treatment as well as to maintain their residence status in their home country. Both Democrats Abroad and Republicans Abroad have active chapters in San Miguel de Allende and retain their involvement with U.S. politics. Canadian residents often live six months in Mexico and six months in Canada to maintain their Canadian health coverage.
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Hurricane Dean is the most intense tropical storm in the Atlantic Basin since Hurricane Wilma of 2005. It passed just to the south of Jamaica on August 20 causing major damage to homes, roads and businesses. The storm hit the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico around 3:30 am on Tuesday in the area of Chetumal. The big resort areas of the northern Yucatan coast, including Cancun, were spared a direct hit. Belize also received strong winds and rains. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Dean made a second Mexican landfall Wednesday afternoon near the town of Tecolutla in the Veracruz State as a Category 2 storm with top sustained winds of 100 mph. Dean's projected path is 400 miles south of Texas. Mexico and Texas coasts will experience large and potentially destructive waves, and the large quantity of rain is predicted to bring flooding to areas surrounding the storm.
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News: Computer Repairs San Miguel de Allende
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News: Control Development in San Miguel de Allende
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Controversy over the direction and type of development and growth of the city of San Miguel that resulted in the temporary suspension of a multistory condo project continues to prompt local social activism. Several new groups concerned about citizen participation in local development issues have hosted public meetings, the most recent with a specialist in defense of national patrimony.
In response to residents' demands, the Mayor has scheduled a presentation and discussion on municipal development next Tuesday, January 16, at 6pm in Teatro Santa Ana, which will include input from city authorities and guest specialists.
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News: Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)
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Under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)
The proposed implementation timeline has two phases:
Beginning January 23, 2007, ALL persons, including U.S. citizens, traveling by air between the United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda will be required to present a valid passport, Air NEXUS card, or U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Document, or an Alien Registration Card, Form I-551, if applicable.
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News: Underground Cables in San Miguel de Allende
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San Miguel de Allende still suffers from visual pollution caused by unsightly cables. Ten years ago, the city began to bury cables in Centro, mainly electric lines, but cable television and phone lines have remained in public view.
On October 10 of this year, the city began installing underground lines in the centrally located streets of El Chorro and Piedras Chinas as part of a general program for Centro; work began on Recreo on October 23. Neighbors were informed that the project would be completed in three weeks. Seven weeks later, and despite numerous complaints from neighbors, the work continues.
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News: Crime in San Miguel de Allende
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Since the unprecedented shooting of a young man at the Sanmiguelada in September in San Miguel de Allende, we have had more armed assaults during the month of November. An expat couple were robbed at gunpoint in the historical center at the beginning of the month. A 16-year-old Mexican boy was shot and killed in a poor colonia on the outskirts of town. The night watchman at the shopping mall La Luciérnaga was held at gunpoint by assailants who stole small electrical tools. Articles will be published in San Miguel Directory as more information becomes available.
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News: Aguinaldos - Christmas bonus
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The aguinaldo (Christmas bonus) is an annual bonus that all employers must pay their employees at the end of the year. Article 87 of the Mexican Federal Work Law establishes that the minimum aguinaldo must be the equivalent of 15 days of salary. Payment must be paid before December 20 of each year. The law also establishes that employees who have worked less than one full year have the right to a proportional payment of the aguinaldo according to the period worked.
Although the law does not specify it, the aguinaldo is normally calculated according to the latest salary received by the worker.
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News: New Tactics to Recent Armed Robberies
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Along with the reorganization that follows every election and change of administration, police procedures are also being reevaluated in light of several armed robberies that have taken place in recent weeks. Members of the Community Security Committee were told of the reevaluation in a meeting held November 15.
The committee, which grew out of community response to the serial rapist’s attacks that occurred between October 2005 and July 2006, held its first meeting under the new city administration. Two people from the Foreign Affairs Department and two police officers, Primer Comandante and Subdirector Operativo, were present at the meeting. The new director of International Relations, Tourism and Economic Development, did not attend.
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News: Shooting threatens sanmiguelada
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Gunshots fired during the sanmiguelada (running of the bulls) last Saturday wounded two people and have put local authorities under pressure to find a solution to escalating problems surrounding the event. During a press conference on September 25, authorities were unable to provide detailed information about the shooting. An unprecedented 50,000 visitors—30,000 more than last year—inundated the city with an excess of youthful energy, alcohol consumption and, by the next day, trash. Lack of security, disorderly conduct, garbage, too few portable toilets, illegal alcohol consumption and the shooting during the event have left authorities in a quandary: either restructure the event to avoid greater problems next year or discontinue it entirely. Despite the presence of 325 local, regional and state police officers, the crowd proved too large to control, and the city experienced its most chaotic weekend in years.
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