General News

The Panama Papers, the vast cache of leaked emails and documents that exposes the offshore accounting of some of the world’s richest and most powerful, has shed light on the clandestine financial arrangements of some noted Mexican public figures.

Mexicans should take advantage of the elections in 2018 to dismantle the current party system, argues Jorge Castañeda Gutman, an intellectual and former politician who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the government of President Vicente Fox (2000-2006). 

An imprisoned Colombian hacker has sensationally claimed that he helped Enrique Peña Nieto win the 2012 Mexican presidential election.

Mexico’s Golden Age of Cinema came to an abrupt end in the late 1950s. The money that had flowed into filmmaking went dry, cinemas went dark and audiences turned away. Yet for some years now, people have been talking about a “new Golden Age.”

Daylight Saving Time (Horario de Verano) begins in Mexico on Sunday, April 3, at 2 a.m. Clocks must be turned forward one hour. (Most sensible people set their clocks before they head to bed for the night.) 

A unique campaign urging people to stop insulting each other has been launched across Mexico.

U.S. journalist Andrea Noel has left Mexico for safety reasons after becoming a target for misogynistic internet trolls. The 27-year-old reporter found herself at the center of a social media storm after she shared a video of sexual harassment online.

The solemn observances of Holy Week come to a close Saturday, March 26 with late night Easter Vigil services at local Catholic churches.