Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday called for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be released from prison in London, urging an end to what he described as his “torture” in detention. Assange, 48, is in a British jail for skipping bail when he sought asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London, where he spent...Read More

The U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo said Thursday that U.S. government personnel remained under “enhanced restrictions on their movements,” a day after gunbattles in the city across the border from Laredo, Texas left six people dead. The consulate said via Twitter it was monitoring the security situation and imposed an earlier evening curfew. Late Thursday,...Read More

Mexico threw troubled state oil company Pemex a lifeline in 2019 to stop $80 billion in bonds held by investors worldwide being labeled junk by credit rating agencies. Now, investors worry that the state itself is a risk for Pemex. Mexico’s creditworthiness came under increasing scrutiny in 2019, with two rating agencies flipping their sovereign...Read More

In order to have better-prepared police officers and provide greater development opportunities, the Municipal Government of Bahía de Banderas fulfilled the commitment that all elements of Public Safety and Traffic have a high school education. Humberto Ceja, Coordinator of the Academy of Public Safety and Traffic, explained: “These police, more than a year ago, enrolled...Read More