General News

The final day for payment of the annual vehicle tax (refrendo) while still obtaining a five-percent discount is Monday, March 31. After Monday the full fee of 455 pesos will apply.

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.

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.