General News

The bit of political vaudeville known as “La Niña Bien,” a music video in which a “Good Girl” – code, in Mexico, for a rich but somewhat gauche young woman – proclaims her intention to vote for leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), has been distracting a susceptible Mexican public for almost a week.

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.

The first National Fight Against Dengue Day was marked at the Escuela Preparatoria 8 of the University of Guadalajara, Tuesday, March 20. 

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.

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.