General News

The prospect that U.S. President Donald Trump could scrap the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the endless talk about a 2,000-mile border wall, the arrest and deportation of Mexican immigrants back to their home country… The US-Mexican saga can be pretty confusing, but one thing is clear: relations have turned sour. Mexico is mired in political and economic quicksand, but it can still count on an old friend for help: Spain.  

It’s being hawked as the most defining non-presidential election in Mexico this century.

The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appeared to have won last Sunday’s gubernatorial election in Estado de Mexico but the narrowness of the result means they can take nothing for granted when the nation votes to elect a new president in 2018.

Inflation in Mexico is running at an annualized rate of around 6.20 percent but is “not out of control,” according to Agustin Carstens, governor of the Banco de Mexico, the nation’s central bank.

“If God is everywhere, does that mean he’s in the toilet?”, a child once asked.  

Facebook, while not as-of-yet occupying your commode’s u-bend, does seem to have an interest in becoming as omnipresent as humanely possible.   

According to several reports coming out of the United States, home and apartment-rental company Airbnb has agreed to pass on to their clients the “hospitality” taxes imposed by state governments throughout the country.

On Wednesday, May 31, an automotive icon of Mexico was put out to pasture, ending a decades-long love affair between it and millions of Mexican families.   

This country’s government is contesting a report that ranks Mexico as the second-most deadly conflict zone in the world after Syria.