Monday, July 7, 2014 Dear Subscriber, I have mixed feelings about our announcement to you today. I am both relieved and disappointed to have to tell you that we have discontinued publication of the print versions of El Sol de la Costa and Puerto Escondido magazine. Im relieved because we were going nowhere in the face of a tough economic climate, the inability to find skilled labor and the extremely high cost of printing. The disappointment stems from the time and resources invested in an ill-fated project. However, we shall continue to maintain the two websites, soldelacosta and visitapuerto. Nevertheless, there is a positive outcome to all this. One month ago I launched Mexico News Daily, a digest of news culled from Spanish and English news sources and summarized in English. The idea was planted several months ago, and the closing of the magazines provided the opportunity to act. The service has been well received. Traffic on the website and our Facebook page has been strong and is multiplying rapidly as English-speaking expats and others interested in whats happening in Mexico have joined the ranks of our readers. Many of our stories have proved extremely popular, primarily because they have not had a high profile in other media. The massacre in Allende three years ago is one, having been kept secret for fear of drug-cartel reprisals. Another is a new franchise developed to assist the mom-and-pop corner stores, the abarrotes, whose viability is threatened in many places by the rapid growth of Oxxo. These stories and many others are registering thousands of website pageviews and hundreds of Facebook likes. I invite you to visit the website, check our our content and use any (or all) of our networking services, such as our email newsletter, Facebook and Twitter, and stay abreast of the latest news from Mexico. Thanks for reading El Sol de la Costa. It was (mostly) fun while it lasted, but now on to a new chapter. Regards, Tony Richards, Director
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 05:15:25 +0000