General News

Spirit Airlines will launch three new flights to Puerto Vallarta, from Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas, as of July 1. In total, the low-cost airline will operate 13 weekly flights to the western Mexican resort.

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.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday that the federal government will focus on “fully vaccinated” Canadians when the time comes to begin relaxing travel and other restrictions.

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.

Several announcements this week give cause for optimism for travelers eager to get back to their former adventurous lives.

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.

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.