General News

At 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, a bomb fashioned out of a fire extinguisher, gunpowder, adhesive tape and a wick exploded in a meeting chamber at the headquarters of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, the official leadership body of the Catholic Church in Mexico.

The Trump administration this week announced that the opening round of negotiations to upgrade the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) will be held in Washington from August 16-20. 

Mexico registered 23,953 homicides for last year, the fourth highest number registered in the country’s history, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).  

You’re never too old for a new challenge! Alberto Chávez, 82, from Michoacan, ran Virgin Sport’s London 10k Race last weekend in a remarkable time of 1 hour 15 minutes, finishing in 9th place. 

A bout of Montezuma’s Revenge, the severe gastric upset many foreigners experience while traveling in Mexico, is almost a rite of passage for first-time visitors, especially for Americans, whose immune systems are no match for, say, four or five street tacos inhaled in a frenzy of post-club hunger at 2 a.m.

Mexico marked World Population Day (July 11) with an update from the National Statistics Institute (INEGI) on the number of people currently living within its borders.

The United Kingdom may be going through turbulent political times, but its relationship with Mexico is “getting better all the time,” Duncan Taylor, the U.K. ambassador in Mexico, has confirmed.

Mexico’s teacher training colleges, known as “Normales,” are to be transformed as of 2018 with a major focus placed on creating bilingual teachers.