Gasoline jumps by 4.2 percent; biggest single rise in 18 years
Mexicans faced a double whammy this week, with increases in the costs of both gasoline and electricity.
Mexicans faced a double whammy this week, with increases in the costs of both gasoline and electricity.
More than 12,000 tins of chiles have been appropriated from the warehouses of food producers La Costeña by federal health inspectors.
For the first time, neither of Mexico’s two broadcasting giants, Televisa or TV Azteca, will be showing live coverage of the Olympic Games.
The bodies of three Central American youngsters found washed up within the past week on disparate Pacific Ocean beaches in southern Mexico could spur this country, which many observers call exceptionally oriented toward children, to implement recent constitutional changes establishing the right for outsiders to seek asylum here, say human rights specialists working in the area.
In his first ever media interview, notorious drug capo Rafael Caro Quintero said he is no longer a participant in the narcotics trafficking trade and disclaimed any involvement in the kidnap, torture and murder of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in 1985 for which he was sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Incidents of homophobia have increased in Mexico in the wake of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, a leading NGO attests.
Italian airline Alitalia has launched a direct service from Mexico City to Rome, the “city of external love.”