General News

The price of limes (limones), a popular, arguably essential ingredient in Mexican cuisine, has shot through the roof in recent months due to an “explosive cocktail” of unfortunate circumstances, say producers. 

Thirteen years after he escaped from a  high-security prison in Guadalajara, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most-wanted drug cartel leader, is back behind bars.

Many Mexicans still doubt the official version that Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio died from a single bullet fired by a deranged gunman on a muggy March day 20 years ago at a campaign stop in Tijuana.

One may have supposed that the humble Monarch butterfly would not register high in importance on the agendas of the “Tres Amigos” meeting in Toluca this weekend, but Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto managed to find time to recognize the plight of this trilateral “treasure” and vowed to step up efforts to safeguard their existence.

Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies this week voted to amend the Constitution and raise the minimum working age in the country from 14 to 15.

IMSS abides by ruling

Following a Mexican Supreme Court ruling at the end of January, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) has announced that same-sex couples who are legally married will receive exactly the same health-care and pension benefits as heterosexual couples covered in the program.

The arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been scrutinized in depth by opinion writers both north and south of the border.  Here’s a selection of their musings.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto welcomes U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the annual North American leaders’ summit in Toluca on Wednesday, February 19.