A group of senators has proposed an initiative that would change Mexico’s federal code to define marriage as “the free union of two people.”

In his first year of office Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has overseen a sluggish economy with an expected growth rate less than half (1.3 percent) of that registered in his predecessor Felipe Calderon’s debut year (3.1 percent).

Veteran leftist politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has slammed President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plans to spend over seven billion pesos on a new presidential jet plane.

Just weeks before the U.S. State Department offered a five-million-dollar reward for the capture of Guadalajara Cartel founder Rafael Caro Quintero, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor revealed he once flew the fugitive out of Mexico to help him evade arrest.

The U.S. Department of State has offered a reward of five million dollars for information that leads to the to the “arrest and/or conviction” of drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero, who was released from prison by an appeals court on procedural grounds in August after serving 28 years of a 40-year sentence for ordering the abduction, torture and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in 1985.

Mexican photographer Luis Javier Sandoval has taken first prize in the Cold Blood Marine Animals category in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 competition organized by the Natural History Museum in London, England. Sandoval’s image of an endangered green turtle, titled “Dive Buddy,” was taken in Cancun, where he says he earns enough money from tourism photography to allow him time to document his beloved wildlife.