Mexico’s cross-border trade is off to a good start in 2024. The country was the United States’ top trading partner in January, with two-way commerce totaling $64.5 billion, according to the most recent data from the Census Bureau. Mexico’s trade with the U.S. rose 1.1% year over year (y/y) compared to January 2023. Canada ranked […]
What do young voters in Mexico want?
Mexican journalist and author León Krauze holds a Master’s degree from NYU, he has covered politics in the United States, for both American and Mexican media outlets. In 2005, he published “La Casa Dividida,” an account of the first five years of the Bush presidency. This is his most recent column in the Mexican newspaper El […]
Mexican politician Fernández Noroña says ex-president Vicent Fox enjoys a Federal Government pension
José Gerardo Rodolfo Fernández Noroña is a Mexican politician and sociologist, he is a member of the Labor Party. He is known for his protest acts, especially after the 2006 presidential elections. He was a federal deputy on two occasions between 2009 and 2012 and once again since 2018. Gerardo Fernández Noroña declared that Mexican […]
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 […]
Mexican Navy helicopter crashes into the sea leaving 3 dead and 2 missing
Mexico’s Navy said on Wednesday, March 6th, that one of its helicopters crashed into the Pacific shortly after taking off from the deck of a patrol ship, leaving three navy personnel dead and two more missing. The Navy said searches continued for those still missing after Wednesday’s accident, and the possible causes of the crash […]
Ayotzinapa student dies in a confrontation with police in the state of Guerrero
A student from a rural Mexican teachers’ college where 43 youths disappeared in 2014 has died in a confrontation with police, officials said on Friday, March 8th. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said the confrontation occurred late Thursday, March 7th, on a roadway near the Ayotzinapa teachers’ college. Sources at the college said […]
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 […]
Three civilians were killed by a roadway bomb in Michoacán
Three farmers were killed on Tuesday, March 5th, by a bomb planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan. A state security official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the blast occurred in the rural township of Tumbiscatio. Graphic photos of the scene posted on social […]
AMLO confirms that 7 National Guard recruits drowned during an army training accident in Ensenada
Mexico’s president acknowledged for the first time Monday that seven National Guard recruits drowned in an army training accident in February — the worst military training accident in recent memory in Mexico. The drownings on Feb. 20 raised questions about the president’s insistence that guard members receive military training and be under army command, despite […]