By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The precarious economic situation in which more than 40 percent of Mexicans live, according to government statistics, along with other factors, such as low education levels and the prevalence of a macho culture in rural southern Mexico, have been the perfect prelude to the emergence and establishment of a social phenomenon in which women are
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By MARK LORENZANA The annual World Press Photo Contest exhibit has returned to Mexico City for this year’s edition and will run through Oct. 2 at the Museo Franz Mayer. The opening of the exhibit coincided with the 36th anniversary of the museum, which was founded by German-Mexican financier, photographer and collector Franz Mayer in 1986 as a place to
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By MARK LORENZANA Six people were killed and at least eight more were injured after armed men stormed a family party in the early-morning hours of Sunday, July 10, in León, the most populous city of the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, local authorities reported. Individuals on board two motorcycles arrived, started shooting and then promptly fled the scene. Among
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO With the shooting death of Noé Ornelas Sanguino, mayor of the town of Villa Jiménez, in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacán, whose body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway on Monday, June 27, there have been at least 59 mayors and municipal alderman murdered so far under the administration of President Andrés Manuel López
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By KELIN DILLON On Saturday, June 5, Governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León Samuel García Sepúlveda spoke out in criticism of the federal government’s response to the enduring water shortage in his jurisdiction, claiming that the Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) administration has little interest in aiding its citizens affected by the drought. Recounting Nuevo León’s – Mexico’s
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO After months of legal battles and parliamentarian evasion the topic, a Mexico City judge on Friday, June 10, ordered the definite suspension of all bullfighting in the city. Although just one day earlier, another municipal judge had ordered the suspension of a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital while a lawsuit challenging its legality proceeded,
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OPINION By RICARDO CASTILLO The two-front legal battle against bullfighting in Mexico was postponed from last week to Thursday, June 9. In essence, a municipal judge has allowed a temporary stay on bullfighting in the nation’s capital to continue while a lawsuit challenging its legality moves forward. In both cases, bullfights, usually held at the 42,000-seat capacity monumental Mexico City’s
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By MARK LORENZANA The Federal Roads and Bridges and Related Services (CAPUFE), a federal government agency in Mexico that operates and maintains federally owned roads and bridges, has found irregularities amounting to almost 40 million pesos related to toll collection on the Chamapa-Lechería highway in 2021. The audit has yet to be completed, so full details have not been released,
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Agatha, the first hurricane of the season, was upgrade to Category 2 late Sunday, May 29, according to Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua). With maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour and gusts of 215 kilometers per hour, Agatha was advancing rapidly toward fishing villages and tourist resorts along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast in the states
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XINHUA Mexico on Sunday, May 22, inaugurated its annual Tianguis Turistico fair, an event to promote national and international tourism products and services, in Acapulco, Guerrero, as tourism companies around the world strive to recover from the covid-19 pandemic. Mexican Interior Secretary Adan Augusto López and Tourism Secretary Miguel Torruco cut the ribbon at the opening of the 46th annual
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