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.

Despite many rumors to the contrary, Mexico’s Seguro Popular health care program will continue in its present form, at least for the time being.

The federal government has announced a new strategy to help locate Mexico’s 40,000 disappeared people that includes the setting up of a new “National Search System” and substantial federal funding.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador debuted yet another new initiative this past week in Mocorito, Sinaloa, this time promoting literacy under the #EstrategiadeLectura hashtag. The objective is simple: to encourage reading among his constituents.