General News

Amid the hoopla surrounding the launch of the feature film “Barbie,” an activist in northern Mexico has created a “Barbie Buscadora” (Barbie Searcher), replicating the mothers and relatives of missing persons who focus on locating clandestine graves and mass burial sites across Mexico.

A Mexican tuna fishing vessel rescued a 54-year-old Australian sailor and his dog 1,200 miles off the Pacific coast after he spent three months adrift in his catamaran.

There are plenty of reasons why obtaining Pueblo Magico status is not all it’s cracked up to be. (See Dale Palfrey “Magic or mayhem in Ajijic,” GR edition 7/8/2023).

The National Restaurant Chamber (CANIRAC) believes it has won an important legal victory in its fight to stave off the impact of an anti-tobacco bill that effectively outlaws smoking in all eateries and bars, even in designated outdoor zones.

Various civilian organizations last weekend carried out a nationwide effort to highlight the illegal electoral propaganda that is being put up by the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) Party  for their “pre-candidates” for the Mexican presidential election in 2024. 

The opposition coalition, now calling itself the Frente Amplio por México (FAM), this week presented 13 candidates who will engage in an internal primary process to decide a single nominee to run against the candidate of the ruling Morena Party in the 2024 presidential election.

The Reforma newspaper group led its editions on Monday with an exclusive report of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of an explosion earlier this month at a Pemex gas platform in which two people died.

Mexico’s skies are about to get a lot busier as several new airlines emerge from the pandemic aftermath and the financial calamities of two, now defunct, discount carriers.