A total of 280 archaeological pieces were repatriated to Mexico at a ceremony held at the Consulate General of Mexico in Nogales, Arizona March 9.

Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, the Mexican drug capo who is serving a life sentence in a maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, has denounced his treatment in solitary confinement, describing it as “inhuman.”

Marijuana reform activists  were cautiously optimistic this week after Mexico’s lower house (Camara de Diputados) approved a bill that will allow adults to smoke cannabis legally and grow their own plants.

Lupita Jones, the first Mexican to win the Miss Universe crown in 1991, has thrown her hat in the ring to run for governor of Baja California, under the banner of the tri-party coalition that brings together the Partido Revolutionario Institutional (PRI), Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) and Partido de la Revolution Democratica (PRD).

Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday that several million doses of China’s CanSino Biologics vaccine which are being packaged at the Drugmex pharmaceutical company in the state of Queretero, will be ready for distribution throughout the country by the end of March.

The federal government has been forced to come out and clarify that all resident foreigners in Mexico are entitled to free Covid-19 vaccines after reports from some inoculation sites that citizens without National Electoral Institute (INE) credentials were being denied shots.