General News

As yet, Mexico has not been included on the list of nations that are being asked not to allow cellphones and computers that cannot be powered up on to flights bound for the United States.

President Enrique Peña Nieto has announced that Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to visit Mexico on an as yet unspecified date.

The Mexican government’s prolonged offensive on the nation’s powerful  drug cartels has relegated domestic and international  coverage of the Zapatista indigenous movement to a mere footnote.

The prevalence of bullying at schools in Jalisco has increased by 37 percent over the past three years, says National Action Party (PAN) federal legislator Lucia Perez Camarena, who this week launched the anti-bullying campaign “No pego, no agredo, sí respeto” (loosely translated as “I don’t hit, I don’t insult, I respect”).

Thousands of doctors, nurses, health care workers and hospital employees took to the streets of Guadalajara and 70 other Mexican towns and cities Sunday to demand that medical malpractice be disqualified as a criminal offense.

Fans of coctel de camaron are having to dig deeper into their pockets these days.

Mexico City has another top-class attraction to delight locals and visitors after telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim cut the ribbon at the capital’s first large-scale aquarium last week.

Gas and diesel hikes continue

Consumers can expect gasoline and diesel fuel hikes every month through the end of 2015, according to Mexican Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell.