General News

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is committed to doing more to accelerate the growth of the internet in Mexico.

Friday, August 22, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto swore in his much-touted gendarmerie, a new national police division that is expected to be free of the corruption that has plagued federal police forces for many decades.

Mexico City’s new state-of-the-art, 9.2-billion-dollar airport will be among the most advanced in the world and  become the main hub for Latin America within a few decades, Mexican government officials are boasting.

Mexican authorities reacted swiftly to reduce the negative fallout from an updated U.S. State Department travel warning for this country released on Friday, August 15.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry (SRE) straight away hit back at the advisory’s claim that kidnappings “appear to be on the rise.”

Proportional representation, or PR, the electoral system that seeks to create a representative body that reflects the overall distribution of public support for each political party, is anathema to many politicians in democratic nations such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. A major argument against PR, they say, is that it produces weak governments. However, there are dozens of other countries – including Mexico – that incorporate PR into their electoral processes under the argument that it’s a fairer system for all parties involved.

Despite heated opposition from the country’s left-wing, Mexico’s lower house has approved secondary laws (enabling legislation) detailing the implementation of the energy reforms passed last year.

At the same time California Governor Jerry Brown and Enrique Peña Nieto traded compliments this week, a survey was released showing that almost two-thirds of Mexicans are unhappy with his presidency.

Thousands of Central American illegal immigrants ride on top of a freight train in Mexico known as “The Beast” in order to reach the United States.