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Mexico seized 380,000 boxes of Corn Flakes, Special K and other Kellogg’s cereals, claiming the boxes had cartoon drawings on them in violation of recently enacted laws aimed at improving children’s diets. While Corn Flakes or Rice Krispies are clearly not the worst thing Mexican children eat, the laws prohibit food companies from using marketing […]
A large group of thousands of migrants from across Latin America, which has slowly been winding its way through Mexico, has clashed with police. Sunday’s clash happened as the group approached the capital, Mexico City. Their plan was to reach the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Catholic pilgrimage site in the capital. But […]
At least 19 people were killed and 32 more were injured after a bus apparently carrying pilgrims to a religious site in central Mexico crashed on Friday. State officials said the bus apparently lost its brakes and slammed into a building in the State of Mexico. Six of the victims suffered injuries so severe they […]
The house of former drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is being given away in a national lottery. The drug lord fled from the house in 2014 when Mexican marines had him surrounded. The house has undergone some changes recently as the Mexican government prepared to give it The surveillance cameras that covered every angle […]
A subway overpass collapsed on Monday night in Mexico City, sending the cars of a passenger train plunging to the ground and killing at least 23 people, the government said. At least 70 others were injured, officials said, and an unknown number remained trapped amid tilted train cars, tangled wires and twisted metal. The crash […]
Mexico surpassed one million coronavirus cases, according to top health officials and recorded nearly 100,000 confirmed deaths. Mexican Director-General of Health Promotion Ricardo Cortes Alcala announced on Saturday that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Mexico now stood at 1,003,253, with at least 98,259 deaths from COVID-19. The country has the world’s fourth-highest death […]
A 7.7 magnitude powerful earthquake hit the coast of southern Mexico on Tuesday, shaking buildings in Mexico City hundreds of miles away. People were seen fleeing their homes into the streets. and this has also triggered a tsunami warning. There were no reports of casualties due to the earthquake. The epicentre of the quake was […]
An art critic has apologised for accidentally destroying an installation at a premiere art fair in Mexico. Critic Avelina Lesper said she accidentally shattered the artwork by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico on Saturday when she placed an empty soda can near it to express her disapproval. The incident took place at the Zona Maco art […]