The international rumpus in 2011 over jokes about Mexicans made on the British television program Top Gear, and Mexico's reaction—probably overreaction—to some silly comments, may cause people to wonder whether Mexicans have a sense of humor, particularly about themselves.
How the Mexican tradition of the "puente" is capable of withstanding the modern industrialized bank holiday Monday
Argentine cartoonist Quino (Joaquín Lavado), creator of the Mafalda comic strip, is in Mexico this week. Mafalda, which Quino began drawing in 1964 and continued until 1973, was always popular in Mexico, itself home to some of the world's finest political cartoonists...
For a country where people read notoriously few books, and not too many newspapers, Mexico has a reasonably large number of news-stands and vendors - on just about every street corner, in fact. The larger stands sell more than just newspapers...
Mexico City's new non-smoking rules have gone into effect, barring smoking in all enclosed areas of restaurants, bars and other public buildings.
More than a habit, it's a tradition in Mexico to leave things to the last minute, particularly when they involve interaction with the bureaucracy. This means long queues for passports, visas and other documents ahead of the holidays, and long queues outside the local...
In 2007, the Mexican Congress passed a law that places strict limits on smoking in public places including restaurants, bars, and other places
Demonstrations on the streets of downtown Mexico City provide novelty viewing for visitors and a source of frustration for local residents
The Miami Herald's Mexico edition, which included an eight-page pull-out local news section, stopped publishing at the end of May 2007, leaving Mexico without an English language daily
The main story in the news in the past week has been the rising price of tortillas, brought about by higher corn prices. The sudden jump in price of the country's most important foodstuff led the government to rustle up a series of short-term...
On October 22, 2006, Mexico City set a new record for the number of simultaneous chess games played at one place at the same time, with more than 13,000 players hunched for hours over boards on the capital's main square, the Zocalo.
One of the things that went out the window as Mexico modernized was stifling censorship of the airwaves, particularly television.
