General News

Although Enrique Peña Nieto’s state visit to France was eclipsed by the dramatic escape of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman,  Mexico’s president and First Lady – sitting alongside French President Francois Hollande – seemed to thoroughly enjoy the moment 156 Mexican soldiers marched down the Champs-Elysees at the front of the annual July 14 Bastille Day military parade. 

Federal police re-arrested the son of the presumed leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) just moments after a judge had released him citing illegal police procedures during his arrest on July 22.

In news that has reverberated around the world, renowned Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison this weekend.

Gangs of dognappers have taken to exploiting Mexicans’ growing love for their pets.
Monica Pineda, the vice president of People for the Defense of Animals (GPDA), outlines three main methods that dognappers operate.

Jacobo Zabludovsky, one of Mexico’s most recognized television news broadcasters, has died at the age of 87.

As fallout from Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Mexicans rages across the continent, one entrepreneur in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, has come up with a novel way of allowing people to express their feelings about the real estate mogul and U.S. presidential candidate, and make some money to boot.

Avalos Ramirez is doing a brisk trade in hawking Trump piñatas, which he sells for around 40 dollars a pop.  He’s even thinking of taking them  across the border to McAllen, Texas to see how well they sell there.

Interviewed during an Independence Day party hosted by the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Consul General Susan Abeyta said she “cannot share the opinions” of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about Mexican immigrants.

Speaking in Guadalajara this week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto  vowed to “push ahead” with the national teacher evaluation program in a bid to improve the nation’s flagging educational standards.