General News

Under renewed pressure from Mexico’s federal government, intercity bus companies (autotransportes) are demanding to see official identification from both nationals and foreigners before selling them tickets.

In an unexpected move – even for Donald Trump – the U.S. president announced Thursday that he will impose a five-percent tariff on all goods entering from Mexico unless it halted the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s crusade against corruption took a dramatic turn this week when federal prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Emilio Lozoya, the former director of Pemex, the state-owned oil giant.

President Andes Manuel López Obrador has announced his government will put an end to tax breaks for Mexico’s largest companies.

Over the past eight years, the number of HIV cases among Mexican youths aged between 20 and 34 has almost tripled, according to recent reports from the National Council for the Prevention and Control of AIDS (CENSIDA)

Citing harsh budget cuts that put the health of patients – especially the poor – at risk, Germán Martínez Cázares resigned this week as director of the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the government-sponsored health care program that covers nearly half of the nation’s citizens.

In a comment that has ignited the ire of many Mexicans, Carlos Garfias Merlos, the archbishop of Morelia, recently referred to abortion as more serious than rape.

At least 20,000 citizens demonstrated throughout Mexico last weekend calling for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s resignation.