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| Third International Choir Festival “Jalisco Canta” |  | From the 21st to 28th of April the Third International Choral Festival Jalisco Canta (Sing Jalisco) will be held in Zapopan, Chapala, Lagos de Moreno, Tlaquepaque and Puerto Vallarta, and this year's novelty is the First Ever Competitive Vocal Ensembles. | | | Second International Festival of Video Creation |  | Close Up Vallarta is a forum for interchange and promotion that allows a visual approach to experimentation, and offers the opportunity to present new videos by emerging and established artists, and even students, plus it is interested in video art made not only to circulate in museums and galleries, but to get you to other places and of course to reach a wider audience. | | | abc* Foundation Promotes Education and Reconciliation Through Music at the World Economic Forum in Puerto Vallarta |  | During the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Latin America 2012, the Americas Business Council Foundation (abc*), a nonprofit organization that facilitates high-impact social change projects, will host the A Ritmo de Cambio event, an initiative that utilizes music to foster education, reconciliation and cultural entrepreneurship in marginal communities throughout the Americas. | | |
| Culinary |
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| A coconut pie recipe, Mexican style and not too sweet |  | We all had had this Yucatan-Style pie at a terrific little fish shack in downtown Vallarta. I contacted them a couple of times for the recipe but they never got back to me, so here is Rick Bayless’s version, hardly second rate. If you like coconut, you’ll be hooked. It has a wonderfully chewy texture and it’s not too sweet. Yucatan Style Coconut Pie: | | | Olé to new Amigos |  | A family's labour of love brings Mexican food to Fisherman's Wharf | | | Revolution in ice cream from Mexico |  | The tiny town of Tocumbo, Mexico is at the heart of an ice cream revolution that’s spawned thousands of Michoacan neverias (ice cream stores) from Puerto Vallarta right up to our doorstep in Sonoma County. In these waning days of Indian summer, it’s worth raising a cone to this ice cream insurrection. | | |
| Education |
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| 2011 a year of challenges and opportunities: Max Greig |  | 2011, year of achievements and results for the Centro Universitario de la Costa, so Dr. Maximilian Andrew Greig said, rector of the highest seat of learning to perform its second report of activities which highlighted the challenges that tested the will, creativity and dynamism, earning it the strengthening of actions that resulted in great satisfaction with the results generated from the commitment of the university community. | | | College of Education and Technology receives student philanthropy award |  | Faculty members from the College of Education and Technology at FHSU spent the last two summers in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, working with non-English speaking elementary school students in an effort to improve the quality of instruction of English and technology. | | |
| Environment |
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| Time to Release turtles |  | From June to November, sea turtles arrive on the shores of Banderas Bay at Cabo Corrientes and Puerto Vallarta, to spawn and have their hatchlings 45 days later emerge to be released into the sea. | | | Oil at Mayto Beach |  | Scientists both CUC and federal personnel and Navy are already in the area to clarify the apparent accident. President Calderon was aware of what was happening and ordered a Presidential helicopter to the area. | | | Wind power potential comes to Mexico |  | Mexico could generate 30 percent of its energy from wind sources if it invested into the development, since it is a country that has the best geographical conditions to develop this kind of industry, was said in an interview by Erik Winther Pedersen, Director of Development Business of Suzlon, the fifth largest wind turbine in the world. | | |
| Events |
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| First Riviera Maya Cup Regatta |  | From the 27 to the 30 of April the 1st. Riviera Maya Cup 2012 will take place, important event for the Mexican sailors because this race team will come to represent Mexico in the most important competitions worldwide. | | | Tequila Expo in Puerto Vallarta |  | In its first edition the Tequila Expo starts on the boardwalk in the coastal town of Puerto Vallarta. | | | DJ Tiësto Ignites Puerto Vallarta |  | Puerto Vallarta’s waves broke early yesterday morning along with the beats of Dutch DJ Tiësto on the esplanade Corona, in the circuit Electro Beach Puerto Vallarta, that atracts some of the best DJs to the beautiful resort of Puerto Vallarta. | | |
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| Issues |
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| Caution key in Mexico |  | Mention going to Mexico and the reaction is predictable: "Is it safe?" Crime was the concern most frequently raised by American and Canadian media attending Tianguis Turistico, a huge Mexican travel trade show, held last month in Puerto Vallarta and Riviera Nayarit. | | | USA will only react to specific proposals on drug legalization |  | At the World Economic Forum in Latin America, Puerto Vallarta, William Brownfield, Secretary for International Narcotics Affairs of the State Department, said "we will not react to concepts" in response to Guatemalan President Otto Perez. | | | Leading Cause of Divorce in PV is Domestic Violence |  | Puerto Vallarta provides an Open Office to help people who suffer from domestic violence, including attorney services and assistance. | | |
| Tourism |
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| The allure of the Costalegre |  | The Pacific Coast of Mexico along the state of Jalisco, is a richly diverse coastline with large and small bays – beaches, and a variety of sparsely populated communities between the larger towns and cities. Cabo Corrientes just south of Puerto Vallarta is where the Costalegre actually begins. | | | Where can LGBT travellers find sun and safety? |  | Feeling welcome and at ease to be yourself are essential elements of travel. And for LGBT travellers in some parts of the world, that just doesn’t happen. | | | Tourism: Campaign to attract new visitors pays off |  | For years, Ivan Ignatievich has been going on family holidays in and around his native Russia. But last year, he tried something different: an all-inclusive resort hotel south of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s Pacific coast. “Very nice,” he said in a thick accent as he sipped on a piña colada by the pool. “Very warm.” | | |
| Economy |
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| Letters: the building blocks of growth |  | As an economist, Ricardo Hausmann has spent much of his life thinking about numbers. But over the last few years, the director of Harvard’s Center for International Development has been thinking more and more about the less tangible productive capabilities that a country produces – which he refers to as “letters”. | | | Mexico Takes Deserved Bows (and Some Boos) at the World Economic Forum in Puerto Vallarta |  | Argentine President Cristina Fernández did Mexican President Felipe Calderón a big favor this week when, on April 16, she expropriated the Argentine holdings of Spanish oil giant Repsol. The move shocked global capitalists and made Mexico, Latin America’s second-largest economy ahead of Argentina, look all the more attractive as a destination for foreign investment (even though Mexico’s own oil industry is entirely state owned). | | | La inversión es de US30 millones para despegue de AeroJal |  | Con una inversión inicial de 30 millones de dólares, AeroJal, la nueva línea aérea regional que operará desde Guadalajara, proyecta iniciar sus operaciones en el tercer trimestre de este año cubriendo las rutas Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta y Guadalajara-Puebla. | | |
| Weather |
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| Recorded earthquake in Puerto Vallarta (Again) |  | Another scare without consequences was registered yesterday at 13:20 hours being an earthquake of 4.9 magnitude on the Richter Scale with its epicenter at 9 kilometers northwest of Cihuatlán, Jalisco and the proximity to Puerto Vallarta, which was perceptible for much of the public, said Alejandro Arias Garcia, head of the Municipal Civil Protection Unit, who said that "the movement was very short but managed to alert the community." | | | Strong earthquake rocks Mexican Pacific |  | A magnitude-6 earthquake rocked the coasts Tuesday of the Mexican Pacific states of Jalisco and Nayarit, but no injuries or damage have been reported, the National Seismology Service said. | | | Hurricane Jova packs 120 mph winds near Puerto Vallarta |  | Emergency officials scrambled to open shelters as Jova rapidly strengthened off Mexico's Pacific coast early Monday, becoming a major hurricane with 120 mph winds, forecasters said. | | |
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