Marcela Lepe has been named the new director of the Institute of Culture in Puerto Vallarta, replacing Sergio Zepeda. Marcela Lepe is a native of Puerto Vallarta and has been a promoter of arts in the area for thirty years, including local artists, musicians, and performing arts. She dabbed in painting early on in life...Read More

Mexican authorities have issued an alert for five states over the theft of a container of hazardous radioactive material used for industrial inspection in the country’s southeast. The container was reported stolen from a truck in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco on April 13, the Interior Department said late Wednesday. It said the Iridium...Read More

President Enrique Pena Nieto formally inaugurated a plan Thursday to save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise found only in the Sea of Cortez. There are fewer than 100 vaquitas left and the head of the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico, Omar Vidal, called the shy, elusive porpoise “an emblematic species for...Read More