Mexico Weekly and Mexico Today

'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.

Faced with the voracious international demand for lobsters from the Mexican Pacific and Atlantic, fisheries and environmental organizations have come together to institute sustainable lobstering practices − although the financial benefits are slow in coming, Inter Press Service (IPS) reported Tuesday.

Journalist’s exhaustive research project documents Mexican art and objects in Europe

A digital inventory of Mexico’s cultural heritage in Spain, compiled by Paris-based journalist and researcher Miguel Gleason, debuts this month, just in time for the bicentennial of Mexico’s independence from Spain as well as the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, The Art Newspaper reported Tuesday.

Mexico becoming haven for companies that offer outsourcing or subcontracting of workers

The global economic crisis has taken its toll in Mexico, as elsewhere, leading thousands of people to turn to private employment agencies to find jobs − even though some of their labor rights may be left unprotected, Inter Press Service (IPS) reported.

A shocking new report obtained by ABC News says that as many as three out of four guns used in crimes in Mexico can be traced to gun stores just across the border in the U.S. The numbers bolster complaints by Mexican officials that the country's unprecedented bloodshed is being fueled both by the U.S. appetite for drugs, and by American weapons, ABC News reported Tuesday.