General News

In the United States, more than 200,000 juveniles under the age of 18 are incarcerated after being tried in adult courts.  Some children as young as 12 potentially face a lifetime of imprisonment for violent crimes committed before they even started middle school.

Aeromexico will launch a new direct daily flight between Mexico City and Vancouver on December 9.

A dengue vaccination could be ready before the end of the year and Mexico could be the first country to approve its use, according to federal Health Secretary Mercedes Juan.

A significant drop in the murder rate in Mexico last year is not only good news for the nation’s beleaguered president but a positive trend as Mexicans cling to the hope that the cycle of violence that has characterized so much of the last decade will eventually end.

Around 200 teachers and sympathizers took to the streets to protest working conditions and pay on National Teachers Day. Demonstrators marched down Avenida 16 de Septiembre in Guadalajara and gathered in the Plaza de Armas to hold a demonstration class to secondary school students. 

Friday, May 1 is Dia del Trabajo in Mexico and a national holiday.  All government offices, schools, diplomatic missions and many stores will close. Many towns and villages hold morning May Day parades through their centers. Guadalajara’s parade usually features labor unions and workers’ organizations, some of whom take the opportunity to highlight Mexico’s inequalities.  Department stores, shops in malls and most restaurants will remain open. The Reporter will be on sale at almost all its usual locations.

Despite repeated infringements of electoral laws, the polemic Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) won’t – for now at least – be stripped of its right to remain a political party but will banned from airing TV spots for the last three days of its campaign. 

An investigative journalist has reported that security forces executed at least 16 unarmed civilians during a confrontation in the western state of Michoacan in January.