General News

Of Mexico’s 1.58 million domestic workers, 44 ​​percent have no medical insurance and receive no benefits, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). There are 692,614 people working as maids, cooks, chauffeurs and other domestic staff without social security, INEGI revealed this week.

The MEXSAT Bicentenario satellite sent its first signals from space December 19 following launch from Kourou aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.

Mexican microbreweries increased production by 50 percent from 2011 to 2012, leading their share in the domestic beer market to rise from 0.46 to 0.65 percent.

Having kept a low profile in recent years, the EZLN reminded Mexico of its existence when 40,000 supporters marched in silence across Chiapas on December 21.

Authorities in Mexico City have rounded up 54 stray dogs in a bid to find those they say were responsible for the deaths of five people over the last month.

Mexico’s new President Enrique Peña Nieto is the world’s ninth most popular leader on social networking site Twitter, according to a study by the Digital Policy Council from December 2012.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that doctors in Mexico are too quick to prescribe antibiotics to their patients.

Residents of Onavas, Sonora made a startling discovery while digging irrigation channels in a 1,000-year-old cemetery.