Carmen Aristegui, the radio broadcaster who was forced off the air recently, hit the wave lengths again this week after MVS, the Mexican radio station that had kicked her out of her early morning spot agreed to put her back. Aristegui had been...
Mexico's latest media scandal is the dismissal of popular radio and television host Carmen Aristegui, an incisive journalist who worked for the MVS radio network in the early morning slot. Her removal from the air was confirmed yesterday by...
In Mexico, politicians have began using social media to campaign. But they seem baffled as to how to deal with angry voters. State Governor Enrique Peña Nieto, potentially the next presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party...
Mexico City has introduced a new law that seeks to protect mental health patients. The law, issued in December 2010, will promote the rights of mental patients. The decision by the local city government came just weeks after Disability Rights...
Online social networks will be serious players during the next year's Mexican presidential elections. Electoral reform pushed through in 2008 means Mexican political parties cannot advertise on television. “That reform has totally changed elections...
The unrelenting violence in Mexico has provoked three well-known Mexican cartoonists --- Eduardo del Rio “Rius”, Jose Hernandez and Patricio Ortiz --- to launch their own civic Twitter offensive. Since yesterday, the hashtag #NomasSangre hit the...
Mexico's Roman Catholic church has taken a new target. Late last week church spokespeople called on Mexicans to stop following a cult that promotes the worship of death, which they call Saint Death. Mexico City Archdiocese spokesman Hugo Valdemar...
The fight between the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and liberal sectors of society continues. A book “The Church against Mexico,” penned by 21 leading academics and writers hit the bookstores in early December after it was presented at the...
As in every country affected by Wikileaks, Mexico is trying to figure out what to learn from the released cables that undress what U.S. officials think of this country and its politicians. In the released documents US Ambassador Carlos Pascual, and...
It is hard to get shocked with Mexico's daily news. But earlier this month viewers of Televisa, Mexico´s largest television network, were treated to a salacious news story: a well-known drug trafficker accusing Ricardo Ravelo, one of Mexico's top...