Campaigns shutdown prior to vote
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
Citizens are getting a three-day respite from the incessant campaigning in the run up to Sunday’s presidential elections.
The identity of Mexico’s next president will be revealed on Sunday around 11.45 p.m., the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) has promised.
Within 24 hours of parading the captured “son” of elusive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman before the media last week, the Mexican government was forced to admit to an embarrassing case of mistaken identity.
Controversial U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone condemned President Felipe Calderon while presenting his new movie about the Mexican drug war in Los Angeles last Friday.
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas was named best director at last month’s Cannes Film Festival for his personal, surrealist movie, “Post Tenebras Lux.”
A new film chronicling the 1994 assassination of an Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate hit 450 cinemas across Mexico last week.
With just over a week to go before the July 1 elections, three of Mexico’s four presidential candidates took part in a debate organized by the #YoSoy132 student movement on Tuesday night.