By ALLAN WALL The vaquita, an aquatic mammal which only exists in one small area of Mexico, is now on the brink of extinction. Can it still be saved, or is it too late? The vaquita, Spanish for “little cow,” is a type of porpoise endemic to Mexico. It’s the smallest and rarest type of porpoise, with the scientific name
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Gags on Twitter and Facebook? A bill to “regulate the performance of social networks” in Mexico is due to be introduced in Congress this week by Senator Ricardo Monreal. The proposed bill would regulate social network companies like Twitter and Facebook on a national scale and would prevent them from censuring accounts of people or entities that
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By RICARDO CASTILLO The cancellation of the Constellation Brands brewery construction in Mexicali has so many political and economic offshoots that they are impossible to cover in one journalistic article. But here are some of them: The people of Mexicali voted against the brewery not because they do not want foreign investment in their region, but because the Constellation Brands
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Coverage Stops Peso, Oil Skids The Mexican government took several emergency measures to contain the downslide of the peso against the U.S. dollar over the weekend. The peso that got wobbled with a jaw punch but did not hit the canvas. It just showed shaky knees. Both the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) and the Treasury Secretariat
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Every now and then, more often than not, the name of Mexico’s fourth-wealthiest man, Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco, dominates the media with controversial reports. In fact, at the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (Semarnat), there are a myriad of files open charging Larrea with crimes of pollution. And if we gauge the amount of media space devoted
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