“We started really catering to the locals.”“Every year is more places and more pharmacies, a lot of competition,” Herrera said. Lilia, head of Nuevo Progreso’s medical association, said she now sees herself as a doctor for the Rio Grande Valley as well as her city. Meanwhile, the streets in Nuevo Progreso were ghostly quiet for the remainder of the weekend, a ghost town-looking scene in Progreso's busiest tourist district. Get ready to visit Mexico. Please limit conversations to subject matter directly related to the host forum. “I attribute safety here in Nuevo Progreso to how the town takes care of its visitors,” said Víctor Rivera, manager at Farmacia Susy. I would not hesitate a day trip across the border on foot for tourist activities in Nuevo Progreso.
After hundreds, perhaps thousands of visitors walked across the Nuevo Progreso bridge and joined the festivities on a blocked off street where the event is held each year, a truck crashed into a building about a block away and gunfire erupted sending Winter Texans and locals alike looking for cover. Over 800,000 pedestrians crossed southbound in 2016 to take advantage of the colorful and unique frontera culture of Nuevo Progreso. Discuss Nuevo Progreso travel with Tripadvisor travelers. Nuevo Progreso safety question - the town by Weslaco Mar 12, 2020; Dental recommendations in Nuevo Progreso Mar 05, 2020; Do many Expats actually live in Nuevo Progreso? Bridge has the capacity for overloaded and tandem trucks and direct connectivity to the Mazatlan-Durango Highway, eliminating hours of trucking for international products.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. For physicians there, she said, Winter Texans “ are extra for us.”There were few telephone lines and little drainage.She recently told federal lawmakers in Mexico City that Nuevo Progreso — because of its proximity to Texas’ South Padre Island, about an hour away — is selling itself as a dual health-care and beach destination, like the resort towns of Cozumel and Cancún.“As with many dentists in Mexico, they went on to open restaurants, bars and pharmacies, and brought their relatives from deeper in Mexico to work in them,” Aguirre said.Lynn Brezosky is a business writer at the San Antonio Express-News.“Many of our Winter Texans can really finance their whole trip by going to the dentist over there,” said Kristi Collier of Welcome Home RGV, which she described as a chamber of commerce for retirees who migrant to South Texas for the winter. “Also, since your president asked for a passport, we feel a lot of people no longer come down.”News spread of deadly shootouts and kidnappings in Reynosa, Matamoros and Rio Bravo. By and large, Nuevo Progreso is probably the safest choice of all Mexican border towns that lie across from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. “I attribute safety here in Nuevo Progreso to how the town takes care of its visitors,” said Víctor Rivera, manager at Farmacia Susy. Do some homework on Mexican vanilla before you buy.Tripadvisor staff has removed this post because it did not meet Tripadvisor's forum guidelines with regards to off-topic chat. Answer 1 of 33: I assume we are talking about the Nuevo Progreso in Mexico, by Weslaco, Texas. Crossing in Mexico from the Rio Grande Valley can be challenging, but it can also be safe if follow some general rules. More than 100 dental offices and 100 pharmacies are packed into just five blocks near the international bridge.Nevertheless, the energy is like that of New York’s Time Square, except it’s shorts weather in February and the closest thing to a police officer is the young federal soldier who says, “Bienvenidos!” before you’re swallowed into the swarm of sidewalk traffic.One friend, Belinda Garza, delighted in the fact that, after paying for four drinks — hers was a Topo Chico mixed with 18-year-old whiskey — she was getting change.“When Reynosa and Matamoros blew up with the violence, this town really took off, “Aguirre said.