Polemic US director criticizes Mexican president over drug war
Controversial U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone condemned President Felipe Calderon while presenting his new movie about the Mexican drug war in Los Angeles last Friday.
Controversial U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone condemned President Felipe Calderon while presenting his new movie about the Mexican drug war in Los Angeles last Friday.
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas was named best director at last month’s Cannes Film Festival for his personal, surrealist movie, “Post Tenebras Lux.”
A new film chronicling the 1994 assassination of an Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate hit 450 cinemas across Mexico last week.
With just over a week to go before the July 1 elections, three of Mexico’s four presidential candidates took part in a debate organized by the #YoSoy132 student movement on Tuesday night.
The European economic crisis is expected to dominate the agenda when Mexico hosts the G20 summit in Los Cabos, Baja California next week.
President Felipe Calderon has much work to do during his final six months in office if he wants to leave Mexico with a more favorable human rights record, following strong criticism from Amnesty International (AI) in its annual country-by-country report.
The world’s wealthiest man Carlos Slim suggested this week that people should work just three days a week but not retire until the age of 70.