Advocates for victims of the disgraced founder of the Legion of Christ, Marcial Maciel, as well as other Mexican priests, have presented a petition asking that Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera be excluded from the conclave to choose the next pope.

Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim remains the world’s richest person for the fourth year in a row, according to the latest edition of the Forbes billionaires list.

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) took the first step toward opening up state oil monopoly Pemex to limited private investment on Sunday by changing party statutes.

Elba Esther Gordillo, the controversial leader of Mexico’s powerful teachers’ union, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with the alleged embezzlement of nearly two billion pesos (154 million dollars) in union funds.

“Professional merit must be the only way to be hired, remain and advance as a teacher,” President Enrique Peña Nieto said upon signing major education reforms into law on Monday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that doctors in Mexico are too quick to prescribe antibiotics to their patients.