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 News Around the Republic of Mexico
Teachers, Bikers, Sect Members Throng Capital
 Wire services
Hundreds of teachers in Mexico City, marching on their annual day of recognition, received notice of a pay raise resulting from negotiations between their union and the government.more »»»
Instant Soup Becoming Staple For The Poor
 Guillermina Guillén
Mexicans living in extreme poverty paid 27 million pesos (US2.45 million) for nutrient-poor instant soups last year alone, according to documents obtained by El Universal through the Federal Institute for Public Information Access (IFAI).more »»»
High-Profile Inmate Escapes
 Wire services
The alleged leader of a Guatemala-based drug trafficking organization sought by United States authorities has escaped from a jail in Mexico City, authorities said on Saturday.more »»»
Letter To Protest US Wall
 Traci Carl
Mexico is planning to send a diplomatic letter to the United States protesting the extension of a wall along the US-California border, officials said Friday. But a spokesman for the Foreign Relations Secretariat said that the missive wouldn't be ready until Monday.more »»»
Drug Culture Eulogized By Musicians From The North
 Wire services
This is the world of the so called narcocorridos, a mix of gangster rap lyrics and traditional polka and waltz rhythms. They are the soundtrack to the booming and violent drug trade in northern Mexico. And Culiacan, a bustling city of 800,000 people, is the heart of the narcocorridos scene.more »»»
Mexicans Living Abroad Gain the Right to Vote
 Luz Peña
The Mexican Senate has voted with 91 votes in favor of allowing Mexicans living abroad the right to vote. The lower house of Congress had until April 30 to approve the legislation to give them a right to vote by absentee ballots for Mexicans living outside of México.more »»»
Gov't Criticizes U.S. Measures On Migration
 Wire services
The government on Wednesday criticized new measures approved by the U.S. Senate that officials here fear could extend border fences and limit migrants' access to driver's licenses.more »»»
Congress Urged By Activists To Give Approval
 Wire services
Activists demanded Tuesday that Congress quickly call a special session to approve absentee voting for millions of Mexicans living abroad, mainly in the US, saying the proposal won't be ready for the 2006 presidential elections if legislators don't act by a June 30 deadline.more »»»
Mexico City Prepares Crackdown On 'Pirate' Mariachis
 Rafael Cabrera
Rising unemployment and a lack of areas in the city for performers of traditional music has given rise to "pirate" mariachi groups operating in the capital's Garibaldi square. And these illegal performers are not just competing with licensed musicians, say law enforcement officials: they are also engaging in carjackings and muggings.more »»»
Madrazo Targeted By Dissident Group
 Jorge Octavio Ochoa
The fallout following a failed attempt to prosecute Mexico City's mayor has caused a group of dissidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to take on party president Roberto Madrazo and try to derail his bid for the national presidency.more »»»
Buying In Mexico Is Getting Easier
 Tom Kelly
How have US citizens financed homes in Mexico? The common practice had been get out your checkbook, add any savings you could muster and then pray the seller would "carry the paper." Now, with changes in the appraisal and foreclosure process, US lenders have rolled out programs aimed at second-home buyers and retirees.more »»»
PRI's Man In For Tough Race
 Chris Kraul & Richard Boudreaux
Meet Mexico's marathon man, Roberto Madrazo, who spends three hours a day working out and the rest running - for president. The trim 52-year-old says the discipline and training from his 32 marathons are political assets as well.more »»»
Mayor Triumphant After Meeting With President
 Mark Stevenson
Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador Friday emerged triumphant from a brief meeting with President Vicente Fox that likely dispelled the last remaining threats to his political career.more »»»
PRI Angry Over Dropped Charges
 El Universal Online
The day after President Vicente Fox's administration dropped controversial proceedings against Mexico City's mayor, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) called for an investigation on Thursday to determine why the case was closed.more »»»
Case Against Capital Mayor Dropped
 Wire services
The attorney general's office formally dropped its case against Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday, quietly ending one of the most contentious political dramas in recent Mexican history. The terse statement announcing the decision brought an anticlimactic end to a crisis that battered President Fox.more »»»
Group Protests Gay Adoptions
 The Herald Mexico
A small group of protesters from the nation's scandalwracked National Pro-Life Committee delivered a letter to President Vicente Fox demanding a ban on adoptions of Mexican children by couples in countries that allow gay marriage.more »»»
Nation Votes To Join International Court
 Lilia Saúl
Lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously voted to join the International Criminal Court, allowing Mexicans who are accused of crimes against humanity to be tried in The Hague.more »»»
Mexican Senator's Plan Would Close Border
 San Antonio Express-News
Fed up with claims that his government has done nothing to prevent the growing count of emigrants dying during illegal crossings, a Mexican senator has come up with a controversial solution more commonly heard north of the border: Shut it down.more »»»
Poll: Support For Mexico City Mayor Grows
 Reuters
Support in the Mexican capital for leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hit a record high as he fought the government for the right to run at 2006 elections, a poll showed Monday.more »»»
Casino Plan Takes Hit
 Will Weissert
The gruesome lunchtime slaying of three would-be casino developers outside a popular northern restaurant has delayed a congressional vote to amend a gambling ban and sparked calls for stricter controls on the few places Mexicans are allowed to place bets.more »»»
Mayor Proposes Minimum Wage Hike
 Mark Stevenson
Mexico's most popular politician, leftist Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, said today he supports raising the country's minimum wage at about two percent above the inflation rate, in a bid to make up for lost purchasing power.more »»»
Mexican Boxing: A Phenomenon
 Bob Cohen
Soccer is most definitely the number one sport in Mexico followed closely by baseball. But the most international success has been achieved by Mexican boxers, the country’s third most popular sport.more »»»
Star Dies After Robbery Scare
 Associated Press
Television actress Mariana Levy, 39, died on Friday of a heart attack after a man armed with a pistol approached her van on a Mexico City street. Levy appeared on the Nuestra Casa show on the Televisa network.more »»»
Congress Passes Bills To Fight Sex Crimes
 Wire services
The Chamber of Deputies this week passed legislation increasing prison sentences for those convicted of involvement in child pornography, pimping and sexual tourism, while the Senate approved a measure designed to better protect women and girls from domestic violence and other forms of abuse.more »»»
Mexican Government, Mayor Hail Move to Defuse Crisis
 Agence France-Presse
Mexico City's opposition mayor hailed the ouster of the country's attorney general who was blamed for blocking his presidential bid and causing a mounting political crisis. He hailed what he called "the decision taken by the president, citizen Vicente Fox."more »»»
Pursuer of Mexican Leader's Opponent Quits Under Fire
 Ginger Thompson
The legal proceedings that threatened to knock Mexico's most popular politician off next year's presidential ballot and to plunge this country into turmoil seemed to come to a sudden end on Wednesday night, when President Vicente Fox announced the resignation of his attorney general and a review of the government's case against the politician.more »»»
Bill To Benefit Voters Abroad
 Wire services
The Senate approved a plan for mail-in absentee ballots for Mexicans living abroad to vote in the country's 2006 presidential elections, after officials argued that setting up polling places would be too difficult.more »»»
Demonstrators Scuffle Briefly In Border Protest
 El Universal
About 300 Mexican women taking part in a worldwide relay march were stopped by U.S. border officials when they tried to cross to the U.S. side of an international bridge to meet their U.S. counterparts.more »»»
Official Proposes Damage Payments
 El Universal
The nation's special prosecutor for past crimes proposed compensation payments of about 200 million pesos (US18 million) for an estimated 500 surviving relatives and victims of the country's so-called "dirty war."more »»»
Smoke Covers Guadalajara
 Wire services
Authorities in Guadalajara declared a smog alert Tuesday, closing schools after forest fires raging nearby blanketed much of the nation's second-largest city with a pall of thick gray smog.more »»»
Latino Diet Changes Deemed Health Crisis
 Theresa Braine
Within the urban Latin American population, obesity is epidemic, diabetes rates are skyrocketing, and heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death among U.S. Hispanics, according to a conference of U.S. and Mexican experts.more »»»
Mayor Goes Back To Work
 Wire services
López Obrador went back to city hall 19 days after Congress voted to lift his immunity from prosecution and remove him from office pending the resolution of obscure contempt charges leveled against him by the federal attorney general's office, which warned that the mayor could be charged with "usurpation" if he resumed his duties.more »»»
Cinco de Mayo - What Does It Celebrate?
 Julia Layton
Lots of us have heard of the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo, but not everyone knows what it celebrates. It is not Mexico's Independence Day. The festivities that occur on the 5th of May commemorate a battle that was fought 50 years after its independence from Spain.more »»»
Mayor Outlines Platform At Rally Speech
 Mexico Herald
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico City's mayor-in-limbo, joined with an estimated 1.2 million of his supporters in a march on Sunday, at which he called on Mexicans to rally behind his "new project for the nation."more »»»
1.2 Million Join In 'March Of Silence'
 El Universal
More than a million people overflowed Mexico City's streets Sunday to protest the prosecution of mayor and presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which would make the protest the largest march for democracy in Mexican history.more »»»
Mexico Puts US-style Court On Trial
 Chris Hawley
Courtroom drama like you see on television just doesn't happen in the secretive, impersonal Mexican legal system. But it might, if President Vicente Fox, lawmakers and human rights groups succeed in a major overhaul of Mexico's courts.more »»»
Mexican Elite Fetes Marriage of U.S. Envoy, Heiress
 Noel Randewich
Mexico's rich and famous celebrated the high society marriage of a charismatic U.S. ambassador to a beer baroness with a fortune worth $1.5 billion on Saturday in a lavish but very private party.more »»»
Rally will Define Real Support for López Obrador
 John Authers
A rally planned for Mexico's capital city could prove the defining moment in the complicated legal tangle involving Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico City's popular left-wing mayor and presidential aspirant.more »»»
Mexican Offical Expresses Hope Schwarzenegger Won't Trip Up Again
 Wire services
Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Thursday he hopes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won't trip over his English again, a day after the the governor apologized for suggesting the state should close its border with Mexico.more »»»
Mexican Legislators Propose Stopping Migrants Before They Reach United States, Breaking With Tradition
 Wire services
Mexican lawmakers have proposed a bill to stop Mexicans from traveling to dangerous border areas, a measure some say is needed to save lives but others say violates the right of free movement and bows to interests of the United States.more »»»
Garza, Heiress to Tie the Knot this Weekend
 Wire services
When U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza arrived in Mexico in 2002, he brought with him high expectations for strengthening relations between the two nations. Few could have imagined he would turn this country's social scene on its head.more »»»
Mayor States His Conditions
 Wire services
Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador told thousands of supporters in Guadalajara on Thursday, that he was willing to reach an agreement with the federal government if the charges against him are dropped and he is allowed to run in the 2006 election.more »»»
Mexican-Americans Challenge Vigilantes
 Wire services
Angered by the actions of "Minutemen" civilian border guards, some U.S. citizens of Mexican descent are crossing from Mexico into southern Arizona in the hopes of being "detained" by the vigilantes so they can then sue them for violating their civil rights.more »»»
Reactions Mixed on Naming of New Pope
 Laurence Iliff
President Vicente Fox and other Latin American leaders congratulated the Roman Catholic Church on its selection of a new pope Tuesday, but some church analysts expressed disappointment.more »»»
Officials: Inequality Persists
 Wire services
In spite of the fact that Mexico has reduced the number of people living in poverty during the past four years, 20 percent of the population still lives on less than US2 (23 pesos) per day, said Social Development Secretary Josefina Vázquez Mota on Monday.more »»»
PGR: Mayor Can't Return To Office
 Wire services
The federal Attorney General's Office (PGR) will request an arrest warrant for Andrés Manuel López Obrador if he tries to return to his post as Mexico City mayor, the agency said Monday.more »»»
Insurance Policy Covers Repatriation of Remains
 Wire services
A California company headed by Mexicans is selling an insurance policy that covers the cost of shipping back to his or her country of origin the body of an immigrant who dies in the United States.more »»»
Congress Could Pass Bill Allowing Casinos
 Wire Services
If a group of Mexican businessmen and tourism officials have their way, you may soon be able to add a trip to the craps table or roulette wheel to your next Mexican vacation. Supporters of a measure to lift Mexico's 70-year ban on casinos are hustling to push the legislation through Congress before the current session ends on April 30.more »»»
Mayor To Resume Post
 Angélica Simón
Mexico City Mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday he will return to work on Monday, April 25, despite doubts over whether or not he is still legally the mayor.more »»»
Boy's Cure Called a Miracle
 Wire Services
A man who suffered from leukemia as a boy is crediting Pope John Paul II with performing a lifesaving miracle when the pontiff kissed his head in 1990. Reports of miracles attributed to John Paul are fueling speculation he soon may be placed on the path to sainthood.more »»»
Decision Looms on Arresting Top Mexican Political Figure
 Associated Press
A decision whether to arrest ousted Mexico City's leftist mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - and Mexico's leading presidential contender - could keep from seeking the presidency next year and threatens to create national political turmoil.more »»»
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