high speed train

SCT must release consortium claim

Freedom of information ruling says document should be public

Information concerning the cost of cancelling the Mexico City-Querétaro high-speed train must be released by the Communications and Transportation Secretariat (SCT) following a freedom of information ruling. Transportation officials had FULL STORY
Universal Truth and Science Institute

School, teacher fined for bullying 7-year-old

Court imposes 500,000-peso fine in case where teacher encouraged harassment

A private school and one of its teachers have been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay compensation of half a million pesos to the family of a student who FULL STORY
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cruise ships in Puerto vallarta

Puerto Vallarta seeks to assure cruise lines

3 ships canceled stops after the May 1 violence in Jalisco

Officials from the state of Jalisco and Puerto Vallarta met with cruise line representatives in Miami this week after three ships canceled plans to stop in the city following the violence on May FULL STORY
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169 years ago U.S. went to war with MX

It cost Mexico about one-third of its national territory

For years the subject of the United States-Mexico War of 1846-47 was taboo in the Mexican school curriculum. Why? The war was a humiliation for Mexico and nobody wanted to talk FULL STORY
Villa Purificación

30 police arrested in Jalisco municipalities

One was Villa Purificación, where an Army helicopter was shot down May 1

The Attorney General of Jalisco implemented an “intervention operation” yesterday in which 150 state police officers disarmed and arrested 30 municipal police officers who were allegedly in collusion with organized crime. FULL STORY
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The Tlatlaya warehouse

First payment made in Tlatlaya compensation

The state will pay out as much as 80 million pesos to victims' families

The first compensation payment has been made to the family of one of the victims of the Tlatlaya massacre in what represents a tacit admission that the Army engaged inFULL STORY
Proton rocket set for launch in Kazakhstan.

Proton rocket fails, satellite destroyed

Centenario was the second spacecraft in the Mexsat program

The second satellite in the Mexsat program was destroyed this morning when the rocket with which it was launched crash eight minutes into its flight. The Russian-made Proton-M was launched FULL STORY
Farm laborer celebrates Thursday's agreement.

Farmworkers’ strike ends with accord

Government may help meet 200-peso salary demand

The strike by farmworkers in Baja California has ended following negotiations that led to an agreement giving them health coverage, punctual and full payment of salaries when owed and improved FULL STORY
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Teachers on the march.

Teachers use their day to protest reforms

Radical CNTE union marches in support of nine demands

Today is National Teachers’ Day, which members of the dissident CNTE union have decided is an opportune time to take to the streets for another protest. Some 4,000 teachers were estimated to FULL STORY
Hernández Salcedo

Assassins gun down candidates in 2 states

They were running for municipal office in Michoacán, Tabasco

Two municipal election candidates were killed last night, one in Michoacán and the other in Tabasco. A candidate for mayor in the Michoacán municipality of Yurécuaro was shot and killed FULL STORY
tulum

How Tulum became Williamsburg of Mexico

Last month, my friend Juliet flew to Mexico to meet me in Tulum. On the airplane to Cancún, she ran into four Tulum-bound New Yorkers she knew, one of whom FULL STORY
Another accident in Tamaulipas

Bus-semi collision leaves nine dead

Second serious accident in 4 days in Tamaulipas

There were nine fatalities this morning in another serious motor vehicle accident in Tamaulipas. A bus carrying workers to a factory in Reynosa collided with a tractor-trailer unit on the Matamoros-Río FULL STORY
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