The right-wing politician called on Mexicans to defend democracy and pointed out that López Obrador’s government disguises itself as democratic. The deputy for Barcelona, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, criticized President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government for embracing criminals with its “hugs, not bullets” policy. In her speech at the Ideas Fair 2024, held in Puebla, […]
Pensions for Senior Citizens: Whose Idea Was It? Fox, Calderón or AMLO
Last Thursday, former presidents from the PAN party, Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, engaged in a dispute via Twitter over the authorship of the pension program for senior citizens. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador joined the fray on Friday, calling Fox a “hypocrite” and stating he was “not accurate.” He also requested the display of […]
AMLO says Mexicana de Aviación airline will acquire 20 planes by October
Mexico’s state-owned airline Mexicana will purchase 20 aircraft by October when President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s term ends, the country’s leader told reporters during his daily press conference on Tuesday, March 12th. The airline, administered by the military, struggled to take flight at the end of last year after it was unable to acquire aircraft. […]
Mexican fireworks legacy is kept alive in Tultepec
Every year, in the first week of March, hundreds of giant papier-mâché bulls stuffed with fireworks are erected in the front yards of the Mexican town of Tultepec. Thousands of restless fingers carefully cut, pasted, and painted the colorful patterns that brought the “Toritos” to life on Friday, during an annual celebration when the bull-shaped […]
They rescue the history of newspaper founded by one of the first Lebanese to migrate to Mexico
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 […]