About to turn 80, on March 11, businessman Alfredo Harp Helú does not want material gifts. To celebrate, his only request has been to receive, perhaps, a letter, words, emotions that touch his heart because, he says, that’s what life is made of. With that spirit, the historian María Isabel Grañén Porrúa, his wife, prepared a […]
“Let us pray”: Catholic masses for LGBT inclusion in Mexico City
“Let us all pray,” asks Gonzalo Rosas, a Jesuit priest who celebrates masses for the inclusion of LGBT people in Mexico City, now with an additional motivation: the pope’s endorsement to bless same-sex couples. “Let us all pray,” asks Gonzalo Rosas, a Jesuit priest who celebrates masses for the inclusion of LGBT people in Mexico City, now with an […]
Mexico-Pachuca Hwy blocked this morning, find out why
Protesters use blankets and banners to prevent motorists from passing On the morning of this Sunday, March 10, a blockade was recorded on the Mexico-Pachuca highway, near the Explanada shopping center. The protesters are a group of residents of the area, who closed circulation due to the lack of water in the area, as well as improvements in drainage services. According to reports circulating on […]
Under AMLO over 5 thousand women have been murdered
Only 25% of violent deaths of women are investigated with femicide protocols; In the AMLO era, more than 3 thousand women are murdered every year. Every year more than 3,000 women are murdered in Mexico, however, only 25 percent are investigated under femicide protocols; Even so, the country ranks as the second with the most victims for gender reasons in Latin […]
Stolen emblematic Acapulco mariachi frogs recovered by authorities in the State of Mexico
What is happening in the country is increasingly surprising, the emblematic mariachi frogs of the Señor Frog’s store in Acapulco, which had disappeared after the devastating passage of Hurricane Otis in October 2023, have finally been recovered. The figures that represent an important tourist and cultural attraction of the port, were found in a property in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, State […]
Presidential Palace door is knocked down by protesters from Ayotzinapa (VIDEO)
A group protesting the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014 knocked down the door to the country’s presidential palace, video from local television stations showed on Wednesday, March 6th. The protesters rammed down the door using a white pickup truck from Mexico’s state electrical company, the videos showed, while President Andres Manuel Lopez […]
LGBTI collectives demand that Mexico and the United Kingdom intervene for homosexual detained in Qatar
LGBTI collectives and relatives protested on Monday at the British Embassy in Mexico to demand that both countries intervene for Manuel Guerrero, a homosexual man of Mexican and British citizenship, arrested a month ago in Qatar for his sexual orientation. “The Mexican state and the British state must take action. They are torturing a Mexican […]
Xochitl Galvez considers reviving Texcoco Airport shut down by AMLO
Mexico’s presidential candidate for the main opposition coalition, Xochitl Galvez, said Monday that she’s crunching numbers to determine whether to complete the project for an international Mexico City airport that was scrapped by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in favor of a military-built facility. Days after the formal launch of her campaign, Galvez said […]
A severe water crisis is threatening 21 million people in Mexico City
The most populous city in North America is in the grips of a severe water crisis, as lingering drought and years of low rainfall push the already-strained system that supplies Mexico City with running water to its limit. More than 21 million residents across the Mexico City metropolitan area have endured weeks of water shortages, […]
Ecuador asks Mexico’s permission to enter the embassy and arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas
Ecuador has requested Mexico’s permission to enter that country’s embassy in Quito and arrest former Ecuadorean Vice-President Jorge Glas, the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry said on Friday, March 1st. Glas, convicted twice for corruption, asked Mexico for political asylum in December, arguing he is being persecuted by the attorney general’s office. “We confirm that the Foreign […]