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Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo’s killing triggered a spasm of fury that has fuelled protests across the fertile Mexican state of Michoacan, which produces limes and avocados found on Canadian grocery shelves. CBC | World News
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Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned
Alberta beef is now stocked in the meat section of Costco Mexico’s 41 locations, joining a host of other Canadian products on the shelves of the retail giant in the country. Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald was on hand for a ribbon cutting in front of a Costco cooler filled with prime Alberta cuts during a weeklong visit to the country. ...
Read More »Mexico’s top court orders release of case file on 43 missing students from 2014
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the attorney general’s office to release a public version of its investigation file into the 2014 disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College, one of the country’s worst human rights atrocities. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico’s president is praised at home for handling Trump. But she must walk a fine line
Mexico’s president is getting high grades for her handling of U.S. President Donald Trump, both in public opinion and in Mexico’s markets. Her government has scored notable successes against the Sinaloa cartel in recent days and weeks. But she has had to walk a fine line in a nation sensitive to U.S. interference. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico’s heat wave made monkeys fall dead from trees. With climate change, that’ll happen more often
Human-caused climate change made the devastating heat wave across Central America and the southern U.S. in May 35 times more likely, and is set to happen way more often in the coming decades, according to an analysis by a global weather attribution research group. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico’s next president will be a woman after historic election, but will she be a feminist?
Many feminists have the impression that the earlier struggles for greater representation of women in Mexican politics have been used by the two leading candidates to advance their campaigns for the presidency without actually committing to real change for women. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico’s Obrador considering raffling off presidential jet
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Friday the latest in a series of desperate ideas to sell off his predecessor’s official jet, which he says is too luxurious for a country where half the people live in poverty. CBC | World News
Read More »8 killed in gun battles in capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state after troops locate El Chapo’s son
Mexican authorities say eight people were killed in gunbattles in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan in what is being described as a failed operation to detain one of the sons of convicted Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman. CBC | World News
Read More »Aftershocks slow relief work after Mexico’s deadly 8.1 magnitude quake
Government cargo planes flew in supplies and troops began distributing boxes of food to jittery survivors of an earthquake that destroyed a large part of Juchitan and killed at least 37 people here — more than half the nationwide total. CBC | World News
Read More »Tropical storm Lidia leaves 7 dead in Mexico’s Baja California
Tropical storm Lidia’s death toll rose to at least seven people, including two children, as the storm doused various states in Mexico with heavy rain on Saturday and left a severe trail of damage in the Baja California peninsula, authorities said. CBC | World News
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