General News

Since the first of this year, volunteers in charge of the non-partisan Vote from Abroad assistance program offered twice a month at the Lake Chapala Society say they have noticed a sharp drop in U.S. citizens seeking help with voter registration procedures and applications to obtain ballots.

The Canadian government has reinstated the visa requirement for Mexican travelers to Canada which was lifted eight years ago. The move came into effect at 11:30 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, February 29.

According to a report by Rolling Stone, should Donald Trump be reelected he intends to send “hit squads” of U.S. special forces into Mexico on covert missions targeting the heads of drug cartels. 

A report by the Eurasia Group says that the November 5 presidential election in the United States will “test American democracy to a degree the nation hasn’t experienced in 150 years.”

If the United States is serious about wanting to reduce the migrant surge at the border, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the U.S. government must earmark at least US$20 billion in aid to Latin American and Caribbean countries to kickstart massive regional development, and thus begin to address “the root causes” of the problem.

A group of protestors marched from the Minerva Glorieta to the U.S. Consulate, where they condemned the “complicity of the United States with Israel” and its “policy of extermination of the Palestinian people.”

Mariana Macias of San Antonio Tlayacapan recently flew off to France to walk the runway during Paris Fashion Week, underway from February 26 to March 6.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has been photographed visiting San Miguel de Allende exactly at the time his name popped up in connection with a major news story in the United States.