General News

Monday, March 19, Mexico marks the birth of Benito Juarez, one of the nation’s most respected presidents.

The U.S. State Department warned American citizens against travel to Mexico’s Playa del Carmen, just one week after several incidents in the area.

Airlines in Mexico have criticized an in increase the fee for international passengers using the Mexico City airport. 

Germany’s Foreign Relations Ministry has issued a statement to its public in which a bleak picture is painted of Mexico’s current situation vis-à-vis violence, effectively advising would-be tourists to that country to think twice before making travel plans.

According to a study by Mexico’s Center for Environmental Rights (CEMDA), 88 acts of aggression were perpetrated on environmentalists between July, 2016 and December, 2017.

With less than four months to go before Mexico elects a new president, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a comfortable 14-point lead over his closest rival, according to most polls.

In a recent graduate study, a student at the Intercultural and Cultural Diversity program of UNAM has come to some troubling conclusions in regards to child labor in Mexico, especially where it concerns the country’s maquiladoras, essentially textile sweatshops where employees work long hours at low pay.

In a move that some diplomatic sources say was not entirely unexpected, Roberta Jacobson, the highly respected U.S. ambassador to Mexico for the past two years, has announced she will be leaving the post in the first week of May.