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New deadlines for cellphone registration

If you failed to register your Mexican cellphone by the end of last month, don’t sweat. Mexico’s telecommunications authority canceled the June 30 deadline for mandatory cellphone registration, replacing it with a staggered schedule from August through December based on the last digit of your phone number.

Tren Maya rolls out gourmet dining

Mexico’s Tren Maya is expanding its tourist offering with “Janal” — meaning “to eat” in the Mayan language — a new restaurant train designed to transform the journey through southeastern Mexico into an immersive gastronomic experience.

Looking Back: A review of June news from the last 60 years

In this monthly series, we republisha few of the headlines from our Juneeditions of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 years ago.

 

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New golf course set for Lakeside

The administration of the Chapala Country Club has pledges for most of the 700,000 pesos budgeted to acquire land for a new golf course five miles east of Chapala, in San Nicolas. An additional 200,000 pesos has been designated for construction of the new clubhouse. Work has already started on the first nine holes.

Mexico expands E-Gates to nine airports

Mexico has rolled out Autonomous Migration Filters (FMA) — self-service e-gates — at its major international airports to streamline entry for tourists. The program began in 2023 as a pilot at several airports, including  Cancun and Mexico City, where wait times dropped significantly, authorities say.   At some peak times, waits of over an hour have been reduced to as little as seven minutes, they report.