General News

Transgender people in Mexico City can now legally change their gender without a court order, following a vote by the Federal District Legislative Assembly last week.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is under increasing pressure as public anger grows at the government's handling of the disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero.  Further protests were held last weekend following the announcement by the federal Attorney General's Office that three suspects admitted that the freshmen teacher training students had been slaughtered at a landfill near the town of Iguala.  

Mexico’s First Lady, former soap opera star Angelica Rivera, has recorded a videotaped statement explaining that she has “nothing to hide” regarding her purchase of a luxury mansion held in the name of a firm that was involved in the awarding of a 4.3-billion-dollar high-speed rail contract.

Federal investigators believe they are one step closer to solving the mysterious disappearance of 43 students in the state of Guerrero. Their optimism follows the arrest this week of the former mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca, and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda.

Anger at the federal government’s handling of the disappearance of 43 students boiled over into violence Thursday as riot police were called in to control protests in the vicinity of the Mexico City airport and in the capital’s main plaza, the Zocalo.

Tens of thousands of patients with terminal illnesses in Mexico suffer unnecessarily from severe pain and other symptoms because they cannot access adequate end-of-life care, Human Rights Watch reported recently.

For the first time in his presidential term Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is finding that spin alone cannot relieve sustained political pressure.  

Gasoline prices in Mexico (apart from in the U.S. border area) are due to go up for the 11th time this year on Saturday, November 1.