General News

Thousands of Tapatios, and fans throughout Mexico and beyond its borders, are mourning the passing of singing idol Vicente Fernández whose death at age 81 was announced at 6:15 a.m. Sunday, December 12.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador marked the halfway point of his term of office with a major rally held in the Mexico City Zocalo December 1, primarily to celebrate his administration’s achievements over the past three years.

Tuesday, December 7, Deputy Heath Minister Hugo López-Gatell announced the start of a program of booster vaccine doses against Covid-19 for Mexico’s over-60s population.  

Discount airlines Volaris and Viva Aerobus will operate flights out of the new Felipe Angeles Airport in Mexico City as soon as the facility opens in March 2022.

The jewel in the crown of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s mega-projects is the Tren Maya, a 1,500-kilometer train loop round the Yucatán peninsula, passing through the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is taking flak for issuing a decree that prioritizes public works as a matter of national security and grants ministries the power to ignore regulators.

Both the Mexican president and his chief coronavirus spokesperson have played down the seriousness of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, that was initially identified in South Africa and has now been reported in many countries around the world.

Some international visitors arriving at the Puerto Vallarta Airport are being checked for being potential carriers of African swine fever (ASF), a highly contagious and deadly viral disease that affects both domestic and feral swine of all ages.