General News

In the next 5 years, passports could become quaint objects of nostalgia, thanks to biometric technology, which will use facial and retinal recognition software to verify travelers’ identities. It’s only a matter of time, then — considering the speed with which the larcenous members of our species get around obstacles planted in their way by the relatively scrupulous members — for a market in forcibly extracted eye balls to emerge and thrive.

The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appeared to have won last Sunday’s gubernatorial election in Estado de Mexico but the narrowness of the result means they can take nothing for granted when the nation votes to elect a new president in 2018.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been good to the news business, pundents and late-night TV hosts, but Mexican businesses are also using his unpopularity with their countrymen to their advantage.

“If God is everywhere, does that mean he’s in the toilet?”, a child once asked.  

Facebook, while not as-of-yet occupying your commode’s u-bend, does seem to have an interest in becoming as omnipresent as humanely possible.   

A brand of toilet paper called “Trump” is set to go on sale soon, with the profits earmarked to help migrants and deportees.

On Wednesday, May 31, an automotive icon of Mexico was put out to pasture, ending a decades-long love affair between it and millions of Mexican families.   

The prospect that U.S. President Donald Trump could scrap the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the endless talk about a 2,000-mile border wall, the arrest and deportation of Mexican immigrants back to their home country… The US-Mexican saga can be pretty confusing, but one thing is clear: relations have turned sour. Mexico is mired in political and economic quicksand, but it can still count on an old friend for help: Spain.  

It’s being hawked as the most defining non-presidential election in Mexico this century.