天气开始降温时，我喜欢做的一件事就是计划明年的假期。关于明年的假期，我心中有具体的计划，帮助我度过的令人沮丧的冬季。其他家人似乎有他们自己的想法，计划明年在墨西哥度假。我不反对，只要我能得到一些赌博彩乐。

　　首先，赌博业在墨西哥是相当自由的，尽管以前并不是这样。墨西哥在最近几年才推出了合法赌场，并有计划地在全国设立大约有35个赌场，其中大部分位于与美国联合边界，到这些赌博场所的大多数的游客是美国游客。

　　过去赌博在墨西哥一直是不合法的，直到二十世纪的最初几十年。 1935年，改革派总统Lazaros Cardenos上台，他在政治上设置扼杀该国的赌博业。并且在1946年达到高峰，他宣布在全国全面禁止对赌博。今天，正如我所说，这一切都发生了翻天覆地的变化。

　　谈到网上赌博，这种消遣自2002年以来已经出现，政府为网上赌博公司颁发赌博经营执照。然而，有一个缺点是在线赌博网站不向当地人开放 ，只有外籍玩家开发，这不利于墨西哥人在互联网上玩赌博。所以有数以百计的墨西哥人在离岸的在线赌博网站开立账户。所以，找一个优质、安全的在线赌场玩网上赌博，对墨西哥网上赌客来说应该没有问题。

　　译文：

　　One thing I like doing as the weather starts cooling down is to plan next year’s vacation.  Somehow, knowing that I have a concrete plan in mind regarding next year’s getaway helps me get through the depressing winter months.  The family seems to have their heart set on Mexico next year, each one bringing a good reason of why it makes sense to travel down south.  I have no objection, as long as I can get some recreational gambling in, which led me to do some reading about the options available to me.

　　First of all, the gambling industry is pretty liberal in Mexico although it hasn’t always been that way.  It is only in recent years that Mexico has rolled out legal casino, poker, bingo and sports book opportunities, and there are plans to have around 35 casinos set up in the country, most of them situated on the joint border with the United States as most of the visitors to these gambling establishments are American tourists.

　　Gambling was allowed quite freely in Mexico until the first few decades of the twentieth century.  In 1935, the reformist president Lazaros Cardenos came into power and set his eyes on strangling the country’s gambling industry.  All this peaked in 1946 when he declared a total ban on gambling in the country.  Today, as I said, all this has changed.

　　When it comes to online gambling, this pastime has been around since 2002, when the government provided gambling licenses to a number of companies to offer their games and products online.  The downside for the locals, however, is that the online gambling sites are not open to them – only to foreign players, which doesn’t help Mexicans who want to take their gambling onto the internet.  Luckily for them, there are hundreds of off-shore online gambling sites who allow Mexicans to open accounts and play the games.  More software groups than ever are producing their games in Spanish to serve this growing market of players, and there should be no problem for Mexican online gamblers to find top quality, safe online casinos to play.