Finance Secretary Arturo Herrera is predicting that the economy will bounce back in 2020 after a GDP contraction of 0.1% last year.
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Hostility against elections authority worst in 30 years, warns its president
The National Electoral Institute is facing unprecedented hostility, the institute’s president said Monday in apparent criticism of the federal government.
‘Cancer doesn’t wait’: ongoing medication shortages distress parents
A shortage of pediatric cancer medications continues to plague Mexico’s public health system, heightening the anxiety of parents.
Mexico City bus drivers plan mega-march to demand fare hike
Mexico City public transit operators announced that they will march on Wednesday to protest government inaction toward their request for a fare hike.
Mexico City mayor cites ‘chain of negligence’ in girl’s abduction and murder
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said city authorities failed to respond adequately to the abduction of a 7-year-old girl who was found dead on Saturday.
Picnic to protest tourists’ eviction from Playa del Carmen beach club
Playa del Carmen residents have planned a beach picnic to protest the arrest of Mexican tourists for occupying the sands without patronizing a beach club.
Meat purveyors to fire up the grills at CDMX festival
Over 40 grillers will share their regional specialties at the Feria del Asado in the Mexico City borough of Azcapotzalco at the end of this month.
Pemex discovers vast oil deposit in Veracruz that could yield 5bn barrels
Pemex has found an onshore oil field in Veracruz that could contain as many as 5 billion barrels of crude oil and natural gas.
Another CDMX femicide, this time of a 7-year-old, prompts outrage
The body of a 7-year-old girl was found inside a bag in southern Mexico City on Saturday, the second shocking femicide in the capital in a week.
Phony honey stinging beekeepers for over 10bn pesos annually
The 100,000 tonnes of fake honey sold in the country each year have caused the national apiculture sector to lose an estimated 10.7 billion pesos annually.
Taking inspiration from Tehuantepec, as Frida Kahlo did
Oaxaca’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and its abundant multiculturalism, served as the inspiration for the current exhibit at Mexico City’s Salon of Fine Arts.
Five years after, Pachuca’s massive sinkhole still not filled
Residents of Pachuca, Hidalgo, are demanding government action almost five years after a sinkhole opened up in the northeastern neighborhood of Minerva.
‘Little by little,’ criminal gangs being beaten down in Guanajuato: security chief
The federal security secretary on Sunday acknowledged prevelant violence in Guanajuato but said authorities are ‘gradually’ improving the situation.
8,000 new beds to be made available for digital nomads
Hotel operator Selina plans to add 8,000 hotel and hostel beds for digital nomads in several tourist spots in Mexico over the next two years.
After faulty repairs, quake-damaged housing still perilous
A week after repairs were made, residents of a Mexico City housing complex that was damaged in the September 2017 earthquake have reported safety issues.
Police use tear gas against march by families of 43 missing students
State police in Chiapas used tear gas on Sunday to break up a march by family members of the missing 43 students from Guerrero.
Gang boss created elaborate criminal infrastructure in Guanajuato town
Fugitive cartel leader José Antonio Yépez built infrastructure in a small Guanajuato town to support his criminal activities and elude capture.
In Zacatecas, murals reflect hope for a future without violence
A collaboration between Zacatecas residents and visual artists has brought color and hope to the streets of three violent and marginalized neighborhoods.
Warden, prisons chief dismissed after inmate raped
The warden of a jail in Zacatecas and the state’s prisons chief have been dismissed over a case in which a female inmate was allegedly raped by a guard.
Once again, Mexico City gang boss released—and rearrested
The suspected leader of the Unión de Tepito drug and crime gang has been released from prison and rearrested for a second time within the space of a week.
Bimbo, world’s largest bread maker, expands into Kazakhstan
Mexican baked-goods multinational Grupo Bimbo has signed a deal with QSR supplier Food Town to provide the buns for McDonald’s outlets in Kazakhstan.
Puerto Vallarta hotels oppose change in room tax collection
Puerto Vallarta hoteliers have rejected a decision by the Jalisco government to take over the collection of lodging taxes in the Pacific coast resort city.
Quetzalcóatl, The Legend, a musical that leaves Disney in the dust
The show has presented the history of Mexico to audiences across the globe in a dance spectacle that the director says outdoes Disney.
Audits uncover 544bn pesos misspent by Peña Nieto administration
The federal government has detected irregularities of over 544 billion pesos in the spending of the administration of former president Enrique Peña Nieto.
Seniors wait 8 hours for benefits — and told to return another day
Senior citizens in Naucalpan, México state, grew angry after the local welfare office had them waiting over eight hours — in vain — to receive benefits
