Mexico’s Senate has approved a wide-ranging reform of laws governing the mining industry, including a requirement that companies pay 5% of profits to local communities. The mining bill was among 18 pieces of legislation, some controversial, that were passed in a frenzied
Mexico’s president returned to his morning press briefings Friday after recovering from COVID-19, and he came out swinging. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 69, said he had tested negative after his third bout of the coronavirus. His return came the same day
Mexico’s Environment Department made promises to protect the endangered vaquita marina porpoise, but has failed to fulfill them in the past. There are estimated to be as few as eight vaquitas left in the Gulf of California and the Sea of Cortez,
Mexico’s top immigration official will face criminal charges in a fire that killed 40 migrants in Ciudad Juarez last month, with federal prosecutors saying he was remiss in not preventing the disaster despite earlier indications of problems at his agency’s detention centers.