General News

For someone with a history of rejecting election results, it was perhaps inevitable that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador would ignore the obvious and refuse to concede that his administration was given a sharp wake-up call in the midterms held on Sunday, June 6.

The slaying of a mayoral candidate in the violence-stricken state of Guanajuato this week took the number of candidates murdered during Mexico’s current electoral cycle to 34.

The U.S. State Department has announced through its foreign diplomatic missions that U.S. citizens who are abroad and whose passports expired on or after January 1, 2020, may still be able to use them to return directly to the United States until December 31, 2021.

Despite last-minute pleas for restraint from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded Mexico’s air safety ranking to Category 2 from Category 1, following a five-month reassessment of this nation’s civil aviation authority, the Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil (AFAC).

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visits Guatemala on Monday, June 7, before flying to Mexico the following day to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The debate over whether beauty pageants degrade or empower women has raged  for decades.

Mexicans go to the polls Sunday, June 6, in mid-term elections that analysts at both home and abroad believe will be key to determining the course the federal government follows for the next three years.

On Wednesday, May 19, Mexico’s federal government celebrated the arrival of another batch of 500,000 Covid vaccines, bringing the total number of doses received in this country to date to more than 30 million.