By MARK LORENZANA Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday, Sept. 21, issued an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. He likewise instructed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to “take immediate action” to “keep Texans safe amid the growing national fentanyl crisis.” At the roundtable discussion and news conference, Abbott likewise sent a letter to U.S.
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By MARK LORENZANA Fans of Mexican basketball have a lot to celebrate lately. On the morning of Sunday, Sept. 4, the Mexican National Basketball Team defeated Panama, 65-60, in the group stages of the ongoing 2022 FIBA AmeriCup Tournament in Recife, Brazil. Previously known as the FIBA Americas Championship, the FIBA AmeriCup takes place every four years between national teams
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XINHUA Mexico’s Caribbean resort region is facing an ecological catastrophe due to a mysterious contagious disease that has damaged up to 50 percent of all local marine coral species, according to Lorenzo Álvarez Filip, a researcher from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). “This is a disease of tissue loss in hard corals, and the pathogen is still unknown,
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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 Presidential Turkey Might Just Fly After several weeks of indecision, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has opted to hold a super lottery draw next Sept. 15 to “sell off” the onerous Dreamliner 757 deluxe transport presidential jet used by his predecessors Felipe Calderón and Enrique Peña Nieto, valued at $130 million. During his daily morning
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By RICARDO CASTILLO Happy Birthday, Carlos Slim Just as Mexico’s and Latin America’s wealthiest man, Carlos Slim, was gearing up to celebrate his 80th birthday on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) delivered a special gift that surely the tycoon did not appreciate: a fine for nearly 1.39 billion pesos. The fine applied directly to mismanagement of accounting
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By RICH GRANT The U.S. Virgin Island of St. John is only three by five miles – the size of Manhattan – but for such a small place, it is ringed with some of the most famous beaches on the planet. A full 60 percent of this green, mountainous paradise is protected from development as part of the Virgin Islands
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