Beautiful and cold. That has been the received wisdom about the city of Zacatecas during all my years in Guadalajara.

A federal penal colony situated on an island 70 miles off the coast of Nayarit – often referred to as Mexico’s Alcatraz – is set to close following a decree issued by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

The February 19 full moon was the biggest and brightest that will be seen this year, according to NASA.

Certain activists aren’t pleased with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s perceived ambivalence to combatting femicide in Mexico.

At least 152 priests from the Mexican Catholic Church have been discharged or imprisoned for sexually abusing minors or keeping nuns as “sexual slaves” over the past nine years, according to the president of the Mexican Episcopal Conference.

Despite some fierce international criticism, Mexican lawmakers recently approved the creation of a 60,000-member national guard that will lead the nation’s fight against organized crime and drug trafficking, thus relieving the armed forces of such duties.