General News

According to a study by Mexico’s Center for Environmental Rights (CEMDA), 88 acts of aggression were perpetrated on environmentalists between July, 2016 and December, 2017.

With less than four months to go before Mexico elects a new president, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a comfortable 14-point lead over his closest rival, according to most polls.

In a recent graduate study, a student at the Intercultural and Cultural Diversity program of UNAM has come to some troubling conclusions in regards to child labor in Mexico, especially where it concerns the country’s maquiladoras, essentially textile sweatshops where employees work long hours at low pay.

In a move that some diplomatic sources say was not entirely unexpected, Roberta Jacobson, the highly respected U.S. ambassador to Mexico for the past two years, has announced she will be leaving the post in the first week of May.

The U.S. State Department warned American citizens against travel to Mexico’s Playa del Carmen, just one week after several incidents in the area.

Homages to the Mexican flag will be paid across the length and breadth of the nation on Saturday, February 24 – Dia de la Bandera.

Germany’s Foreign Relations Ministry has issued a statement to its public in which a bleak picture is painted of Mexico’s current situation vis-à-vis violence, effectively advising would-be tourists to that country to think twice before making travel plans.

According to Banco de Mexico, 2017 saw the seizure of over 335,000 counterfeit bills, totaling close to 112 million pesos. The most common denomination?