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By Louis Nevaer New America Media MERIDA, Mex. – The sudden death of Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist, social critic and man of letters, last week at the age of 83, has cast a shadow over the nation just weeks before voters here will go to the polls to elect new leaders, including the president, in [...]

Mexican Medical Ministries has brought healing and hope to the people of Mexico through helping to meet their physical and spiritual needs. Founder, Loran Long left San Diego in 1962 headed for the San Quintin Valley in Baja California, Mexico to plant some churches. He had changed his college major from pre-med to theology. Soon [...]

By Laura Carlsen The starting bell rang for the Mexican presidential campaigns on March 30, and the candidates are out of the gates. As the nation faces an unprecedented crisis in levels of violence and lawlessness, one of the big issues is who will have to take the blame for the disastrous war on drugs. [...]

By Kent Paterson Next, month Ciudad Juarez’s new historical-cultural gem will celebrate its first anniversary. Built as part of the 2010 Bicentennial/Centennial commemoration of the 1810 War of Independence and 1910 Revolution, the Museum of the Border Revolution (Muref) offers visitors a unique glimpse of Mexico’s early 20th century revolutionary upheaval, especially the strategic role [...]

Frontera NorteSur As Mexicans took off from work and school for the long Holy Week-Easter holiday celebrations, the country’s presidential and congressional candidates inundated electronic media with new ads designed to win over the voters. A sampling of spots aired on Ciudad Juarez’s public radio station 106.7 FM over the Easter weekend zoomed in on [...]

Frontera NorteSur Call it the Michoacan Plus Syndrome. Exposed during last fall’s elections in the Mexican state of Michoacan, kidnappings and other crimes against actual or potential political candidates are now surfacing in Mexico’s state and federal elections scheduled for July 1. In a recent meeting with the Interior Ministry, leaders of the Progressive Movement [...]

A representative of the victims of sexual abuse committed by late Mexican priest Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of Christ, on Monday reproached Pope Benedict XVI “for having ignored” that group of people on his just-concluded visit to Mexico. “Why, in Mexico, did you not want to be close to the victims of that [...]

By Katia Lopez-Hodoyan Vatican Correspondent Now that the Pope is in Guanajuato, Mexico, there’s one question that’s being raised over and over again…..Will his visit help stop the violence? Short term, the answer might be yes, but while that might be good enough for a few days, Mexican people are looking for a long term [...]

Por Mar Muñoz-Visoso Como a muchas personas, me sorprendió inicialmente escuchar la noticia de que Benedicto XVI iba a viajar a México pero no visitaría la Basílica de Guadalupe en la Ciudad de México. La visita a la Basílica era cosa segura en los viajes de Juan Pablo II a México. Luego supimos que eran [...]

Note: In the 20th century and the first years of the 21st, women made a big mark in the public life of Mexico. Whether as educators, entertainers, entrepreneurs, activists or athletes, women have been an indispensable part of the national story. Journalists like Lydia Cacho and Carmen Aristegui became important interpreters of the national reality, [...]

By Jim Estrada St. Patrick’s Day has special significance in Mexico and among generations of families who can trace their history to the old Southwest, particularly among those of Mexican heritage. This reverence is due to the actions of unsung heroes known as the San Patricios. While their bravery and military skills are not particularly [...]

Commentary: By Raoul Lowery Contreras The Mexican Presidential election of 2012 is this July. Mexican Josefina Vasquez Mota, the first woman nominated by a major political party for President of any country in North America dropped in on a reception in her honor the other day, I was there. Ms Mota is the fifty-something candidate [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur The two high-tech workers laughed when asked if they could afford the smartphones made by their colleagues on Mexican production lines. “No, no, no,” chuckled Maria and Alma, two Guadalajara workers who have labored for years in Mexico’s Silicon Valley. A cheap $20 cell phone has to make do for [...]

By Louis E.V. Nevaer New America Media MERIDA, Mex. – Despite relentless coverage of the Mexican drug war by U.S. news media over the last several years, tourism to Mexico is rebounding strongly. Following three years of sharp decline that began in April 2009, when fears over H1N1 – the virus commonly known as “swine [...]

By Kent Paterson Fronter NorteSur It might be called Puerto Vallarta’s “Stairway to Heaven.” Climbing up a double row of steps and fronting white homes with red-tiled roofs, the cobble-stone heights of Iturbide Street offer a magnificent view of blue Banderas Bay and its population of wintering humpback whales and playful dolphins. From the high [...]

By Salvador Guerrero WASHINGTON– The United States isn’t the only country facing a contentious presidential election this year. Mexico will elect a new president in July, and some experts think the National Action Party (PAN) will be ousted from office by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which held power for 71 years before the PAN [...]

Frontera NorteSur  It’s full-tilt political boogie in the US and Mexico. Media in both nations are saturated with interviews, profiles and satires of the candidates. Cable blasts virtually nonstop news of the Republican primaries and the ones for president and Mexico City mayor south of the border. In 2012 the neighboring countries will experience national, [...]