General News

Around 200,000 tickets for the lottery of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s presidential plane will go on sale in Jalisco as of March 2. Each “cachito” – as the tickets are referred to – will have a cost of 500 pesos.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been criticized for announcing that as of 2021 all civic holidays will be celebrated on their actual day, not on the nearest Monday.

The majority of the country’s practicing Catholics initiated Lent by attending church on Ash Wednesday (Miercoles de Cenizas) when a priest – or in some cases a nun – stamped the sign of the cross on their foreheads in ash while reciting a familiar spiritual admonition such as “Repent and believe in the Gospel” or “You are dust and to dust you shall return.”

This country is experiencing an upswell of indignation at the wave of savage murders of women referred to as “femicides,” a term that is used when women are killed for “gender-specific reasons.”

Mexico does not fall into the category of nations that a World Health Organization expert recently warned are “simply not ready’ to contain a coronavirus pandemic, a federal official said.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that former President Enrique Peña Nieto is being probed for possible corrupt practices, although the current Mexican chief executive says he is unaware of any such investigation.

Mexico’s lawmakers have until April 30 to come up with a regulatory framework for the legalization of marijuana.

This week’s arrest of fugitive Emilio Lozoya, the former chief executive of the state-owned oil company Pemex, is a significant scalp for Pre

sident Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who made rooting out corruption in the highest echelons of Mexican society a key component of his 2018 campaign.