Mexico Weekly and Mexico Today

Floods which have affected more than half a million people in southeastern Mexico will likely worsen after the opening of a dam and predictions of more rains, Tabasco's state governor said Wednesday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Foreign companies brush aside concerns about drug- related violence, enticed by peso

When Cessna Aircraft Co. sought a low-wage country in 2006 where it could manufacture airplane parts, its first instinct was to go to China, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
After struggling to find a way to ship supplies to the Asian country in less than a month, the Wichita, Kansas-based producer of light airplanes discovered a better solution just across the U.S. border: Mexico.

A style emblematic of its homeland contends with a crowded Spanish-language musical landscape

Franciscan priest Héctor Ventura believes that God likes mariachi music, which might explain why the good father invited an all-female mariachi group to play at the noon Mass at the 300-year-old Basílica de Zapopan on the edge of Guadalajara, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.

Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Latin America’s largest oil producer, said it may complete “within days” repairs of its coker and gasoil hydrotreater after an explosion at the Cadereyta refinery outside of Monterrey in the state of Nuevo León, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

'El Infierno' may have grim message but some Mexican moviegoers see film as a necessary critique

A Mexican returns from the United States to find his home town corrupted by drug traffickers in a polemical movie drawing laughs in Mexico despite its brutal depiction of drug violence, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Wednesday.

US Secretary of State believes nation has the capacity to fight the cartels

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that violent Mexican drug cartels were starting to look like an insurgency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

President Felipe Calderón has a new Twitter account name − FelipeCalderon. Not terribly catchy but an improvement over his previous moniker − presidente_FC, CNN reported Wednesday.

Tamaulipas state attorney-general's office conducting DNA tests to confirm the identities

The authorities in Mexico say they believe they have found the bodies of two officials investigating the killing of 72 foreign migrants last month, the BBC reported Wednesday.

Tabasco, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca experience severe flooding

Tens of thousands of people have abandoned their homes across southern Mexico to escape flooding from weeks of torrential rains, and forecasts are predicting even more rainfall, The Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday.

Seven women in Mexico serving prison terms of up to 29 years for the death of their newborns were freed Tuesday after a legal reform enacted in the state of Guanajuato lowered their sentences, The Associated Press (AP) reported.