Well-settled expatriate residents of the Lake Chapala area have witnessed an exponential growth of the foreign immigrant population in recent years.

A new survey indicates that only 17 percent of Mexicans plan to dig into their pockets to splash out on a loved one for Dia del Amor y la Amistad (the Mexican equivalent of Valentine’s Day) on Tuesday, February 14.

A proposal currently in the Jalisco state legislature seeks to criminalize people who plagiarize a thesis to obtain a professional or postgraduate degree.

Yasmín Esquivel, the Mexican Supreme Court judge accused of plagiarizing her law degree thesis at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1987, says she will not resign and is determined to continue her career.

Sixteen dogs have formed part of a search and rescue team dispatched by the Mexican government to help look for survivors trapped under collapsed buildings in the aftermath of the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck an area of southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, February 6.

The high-profile New York trial of Genaro García Luna, the former public security minister in the administration of President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012), could be coming to an earlier conclusion than originally anticipated.