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

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is under increasing pressure as public anger grows at the government's handling of the disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero.  Further protests were held last weekend following the announcement by the federal Attorney General's Office that three suspects admitted that the freshmen teacher training students had been slaughtered at a landfill near the town of Iguala.  

Federal investigators believe they are one step closer to solving the mysterious disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero. Their optimism follows the arrest this week of the former mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda.

Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses in Mexico suffer unnecessarily from severe pain and other symptoms because they cannot access adequate end-of-life care, Human Rights Watch reported recently.

Gasoline prices in Mexico (apart from in the U.S. border area) are due to go up for the 11th time this year on Saturday, November 1.

The parents of 43 students who disappeared in the state of Guerrero are pinning their hopes on the Mexican government to find out what happened to their offspring, albeit with serious misgivings.