General News

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week celebrated the 75th anniversary of its legal attaché program in Mexico City.  According to an FBI press release, the FBI and Mexican authorities have been working together to investigate crimes since the late 1910s, with the legal attaché office formally opening in 1940.  Since its opening, the FBI office in Mexico City has grown to become the agency’s largest overseas post.

Mexican health authorities have approved the first vaccine to gain official acceptance for use against the dengue fever virus.  The vaccine, Dengvaxia, is manufactured by the French-based pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur.

Employees in Mexico will be expecting a little extra in their pay packet prior to Christmas. The aguinaldo (Christmas bonus) is a long-standing tradition in Mexico and is specified in Article 87 of the Federal Labor Law.

A gleaming, purple pedestrian bridge linking the Tijuana airport with the United States at Otay Mesa opened Wednesday.

As activists and individuals  ramp up pressure on politicians to change laws governing the use of marijuana, some citizens are digging in their heels and starting campaigns to keep the current restrictions firmly in place. 

Forget international politics. One of the biggest stories floating around the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders’ summit this week in the Philippines concerned the relative handsomeness of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Mexican authorities have arrested three members of a gang of five highway robbers who allegedly killed two Australian surfers in the state of Sinaloa.

More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the United States than have migrated there since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of recently made  available government data from both countries.