Nopal, or cactus, consumption reduces the risk of diabetes complications, has no side effects, and is inexpensive, reported Ph.D. in Basic Biomedical Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The nopal has an antihyperglycemic effect that prevents the elevation of glucose, helping the pancreas to not overproduce insulin and thus reducing the risk...Read More

U.S. spy agencies will publicly celebrate their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and encourage new LGBT recruits at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas next week, the office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said on Friday. In a presentation titled “America’s LGBT Spies: Secret Agents of Change,” three serving intelligence...Read More

Tonight northern states in Mexico will set their clocks forward for Daylight Savings, while the rest of the country will wait until April 3. Mexican States bordering the United States observe Daylight Savings on the same schedule as the U.S. for those who cross the border for work, business, commerce, and education each day. The...Read More

Mexico central bank governor Agustin Carstens said on Friday he is “implicitly” factoring in the possibility of Republican hopeful Donald Trump becoming U.S. president in the bank’s economic risk models. In an interview with El Financiero/Bloomberg Carstens was asked whether the chances of Trump, a persistent critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement, becoming...Read More

That pesky kid brother or sister who broke your stuff and got you in trouble all the time may have actually done you a favor. A U.S. study suggests that younger siblings might be really good for your health. That’s because by first grade, kids with younger siblings are much less likely to be obese....Read More

A public recruitment drive by a Mexican drug cartel using fliers promising high wages and good benefits reflects the expanding power of the gang, experts said Friday. The recruitment fliers advertised jobs as security guards or bodyguards under the name of a fake company, and promised good benefits, a Christmas bonus and “growth in the...Read More

The San Pancho Children’s Circus will present the fifth edition of “Camino de Hazaña” (Heroic Journey) in the Cultural Capital of the Riviera Nayarit, San Pancho, from March 16-19, 2016. What started five years ago as an introductory workshop to the circus arts for 50 children and teens is today a school that has opened...Read More