Empty booths, full ballots: Mexico’s experiment in judicial democracy
Was it a huge success or a resounding failure? Mexicans’ opinions on last Sunday’s judicial elections are mixed, largely depending on which side of the political aisle they sit.
Was it a huge success or a resounding failure? Mexicans’ opinions on last Sunday’s judicial elections are mixed, largely depending on which side of the political aisle they sit.
The death toll from a mine-type explosive device detonated on the Michoacán–Jalisco border stands at eight, according to federal sources—marking one of the deadliest attacks against the Mexican Army in recent years.
The U.S. government officially has a new man at the helm in Mexico.
On Sunday, June 1, Mexico will go to the polls to elect hundreds of federal judges and magistrates in the first election of its kind in the republic.
Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies (lower house) has approved a new measure requiring supermarkets to pay their grocery baggers—commonly known as cerillos (matchsticks)—a proper salary.
Members of the National Chamber of Commerce, Services, and Tourism of Mexico City (Canaco) have reported that Chinese-made goods, entering the country illegally, are being relabeled with the “Made in Mexico” label in warehouses and shopping malls in the Historic Center, many of which are operated by Asian business owners.
Retired First Sergeant Cesar Maximiliano Gutiérrez Marín, the last surviving member of the legendary Squadron 201, Mexico’s only military unit to see action in World War II, passed away on May 3 at the age of 100.
“Mechanical issues” allegedly caused a Mexican Navy training ship, with 277 crew members on board, to veer wildly off course and collide with New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, resulting in the deaths of two young sailors and injuring 22 others, 11 of them seriously.
World leaders wasted no time in congratulating Robert Francis Prevost (Pope Leo XIV) on his election as the 267th pope and leader of the Roman Catholic Church on May 8.