At around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, about 70 people blocked a part of the Mexico City-Cuernavaca Highway for an hour, causing chaos, mainly in the Insurgentes and Viaducto Tlalpan area toward Cuernavaca
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The neighbors reportedly said that the dogs had been overly aggressive in the past, having attacked other people in the apartment complex
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AMLO came to Sheinbaum’s defense during his daily morning press conference, claiming the “vultures are circling” around the Mexico City mayor in the wake of Saturday’s tragic accident
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By MARK LORENZANA At a Christmas party that I attended with my wife here in Mexico City on Sunday, Dec. 4, organized by the Philippine Embassy in Mexico, something caught my attention: not just the Filipino food, which my Mexican wife and I both enjoyed immensely, or the fun games and activities, but the Filipino choir that sang during
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Twelve Mexico City municipalities — Álvaro Obregón, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez, Cuajimalpa, Coyoacán, Cuauhtémoc, Iztapalapa, Iztacalco, Miguel Hidalgo, Magdalena Contreras, Tlapan and Venustiano Carranza — will have a decrease in water supply for the next four weeks, the capital’s water system announced Saturday, Nov. 12. Due to a technical failure on Friday, Nov. 11, in one of the
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By MARK LORENZANA In the last year, complaints for the crime of extortion increased in most of the boroughs in Mexico City. In 2020 there were 54 complaints filed at the Cuauhtémoc Mayor’s Office, but by 2021 the complaints grew to 73. According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), from January to
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By MARK LORENZANA The federal government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), through Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), is seeking to appropriate several private properties from the major business district of Santa Fe, located in the Cuajimalpa de Morelos and Álvaro Obregón boroughs of Mexico City — but without paying compensation to the owners. The López
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS On Monday, Sept. 12, Mexico pays homage to 83 Irish immigrants who fought beside Mexican soldiers in the 1846 invasion of Mexico by the United States. The Saint Patrick Brigade, as this martyred group of Irish soldiers came to be known, had originally been drafted into the U.S. Army by General Zachary Taylor to invade Mexico in
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By MARK LORENZANA On Monday, Aug. 15, 12 municipalities in Mexico City experienced a reduction in the supply of drinking water due to the low water levels in the storage dams of the Cutzamala System aqueduct. Representatives from the Mexico City Water System (Sacmex) explained early Monday that the water pressure in the capital would be decreased from the usual
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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — In the southwest corner of Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the remnants of one of the country’s oldest ethnic groups can still be found: the Yaqui people, who despite a tumultuous relationship with the government throughout modern Mexican history, have remained standing and constantly fighting for their land and basic human rights. The indigenous group,
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