All 125 municipal police forces in Jalisco would be placed under centralized state control if sweeping constitutional reforms proposed by President Enrique Peña Nieto last week get the approval of Congress.

The federal government has launched a campaign to encourage owners of cellphones to report the theft or loss of their devices to authorities.

Transgender people in Mexico City can now legally change their gender without a court order, following a vote by the Federal District Legislative Assembly last week.

Mexico’s First Lady, former soap opera star Angelica Rivera, has recorded a videotaped statement explaining that she has “nothing to hide” regarding her purchase of a luxury mansion held in the name of a firm that was involved in the awarding of a 4.3-billion-dollar high-speed rail contract.

Anger at the federal government’s handling of the disappearance of 43 students boiled over into violence Thursday as riot police were called in to control protests in the vicinity of the Mexico City airport and in the capital’s main plaza, the Zocalo.

For the first time in his presidential term Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is finding that spin alone cannot relieve sustained political pressure.