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FBI marks 75 years in Mexico

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last week celebrated the 75th anniversary of its legal attaché program in Mexico City.  According to an FBI press release, the FBI and Mexican authorities have been working together to investigate crimes since the late 1910s, with the legal attaché office formally opening in 1940.  Since its opening, the FBI office in Mexico City has grown to become the agency’s largest overseas post.


Pot legalization backlash grows

As activists and individuals  ramp up pressure on politicians to change laws governing the use of marijuana, some citizens are digging in their heels and starting campaigns to keep the current restrictions firmly in place. 

More Mexicans leaving US than arriving

More Mexican immigrants have returned to Mexico from the United States than have migrated there since the end of the Great Recession in June 2009, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of recently made  available government data from both countries.

Mexico first to approve dengue vaccine

Mexican health authorities have approved the first vaccine to gain official acceptance for use against the dengue fever virus.  The vaccine, Dengvaxia, is manufactured by the French-based pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur.