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A ban on junk food in Mexico’s schools will enter into effect on Monday, government officials announced on Saturday. The junk food ban is part of the government’s Healthy Living program, a collaboration between the Public Education Ministry (SEP) and the Health Ministry. The ban applies to both public and private schools across all levels of education. ¡Adiós a la comida chatarra! A partir del 29 de marzo, estará prohibida su venta en las escuelas de todo el país. En el Manual para madres y padres de familia, encontrarán recetas nutritivas y deliciosas para sus hijas e hijos. Disponible en:… pic.twitter.com/A6ouxQtlK4 — SEP México (@SEP_mx) March 26, 2025 Mexico’s Education Ministry announced the ban on the social media site X, writing “Farewell, junk food!” “One of the core principles of the new Mexican school system is healthy living,” federal Education Minister Mario Delgado said. “There’s a high level of acceptance of this policy among parents.” The health guidelines...

The attorney general of Quintana Roo revealed on Monday that a 42-year-old male suspect was arrested last Thursday in connection with the murder of the police chief in the Caribbean coast resort town of Tulum. José Roberto Rodríguez Bautista, a Navy captain turned security chief, was shot in Tulum on March 21 and died in hospital on the morning of Saturday March 22 . Tulum Security Minister José Roberto Rodríguez Bautista was shot on March 21 and died the next day. (Cuartoscuro) Quintana Roo Attorney General Raciel López told a press conference that state and federal authorities arrested Alejandro “N,” alias “El Rayo,” in Veracruz city for his alleged involvement in the murder of the municipal security chief. He said that the suspect is from Taxco, Guerrero, and is a member of a criminal group. “He participated in the homicide of the municipal secretary of public security,” said López, who noted that authorities determined that after the Tulum shooting, the suspect fled to Tam...

More heat waves are on the way in April according to Mexico’s National Meteorological Service (SMN).  As the month of March came to an end on Monday, temperatures were expected to reach 45 degrees Celsius (113 F) in Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, with the rest of the country preparing for a hot week ahead. Entérate en el video cuáles serán las condiciones de cielo y #Temperatura que predominarán hoy, en algunas de las principales localidades de nuestro país. pic.twitter.com/APqeSEcpFo — CONAGUA Clima (@conagua_clima) March 31, 2025 The SMN forecasts  temperatures to hover around 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) across broad swaths of the country this week, specifically in the northern and western Pacific states, as well as parts of central and eastern Mexico. Here are this week’s high temperatures by state: Maximum temperatures of 40 to 45 C: Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Sinaloa, northwest Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero, Morelos, ...

President Claudia Sheinbaum said she had a “fruitful” meeting with United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Friday, but the U.S. official declared that “there is still much work to be done” to stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the Mexico-U.S. border. Sheinbaum and Noem met at the National Palace in Mexico City at the tail end of the homeland security secretary’s first international trip since she assumed her position in late January. The former governor of South Dakota also visited El Salvador and Colombia during a three-day Latin America trip to discuss immigration, crime and deportation with presidents and other high-ranking officials. Recibimos en Palacio Nacional a la secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, Kristi Noem, con quien tuvimos una provechosa reunión para beneficio de México y Estados Unidos. Nuestros países mantienen buena relación en el marco de respeto a las… pic.twitter.com/jUwa3UZ18M — Claudia Sheinbaum Par...

Mexico has found itself in the middle of a trade war — of words — after the U.S. and Chinese embassies in Mexico squared off on social media over criticism of Chinese e-commerce apps like Shein and Temu. On Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico published a video urging users in Mexico to delete Chinese cell phone apps, citing data security risks and other concerns.  “Si en tu telefono tienes aplicaciones de productos de bajo costo, es momento de borrarlas. No solamente porque tienen in Class Action Suit en EE.UU., tienen una demanda por la cantidad de datos que roban de tu cellular, pero simplemente por que cada vez que compras en una… pic.twitter.com/wEV5dEv2gr — Embajada EU en Mex (@USEmbassyMEX) March 28, 2025 The video singled out Shein, Temu, AliBaba and AliExpress, claiming that these websites not only jeopardize personal data but that the Chinese retailers negatively impact Mexican industry. In the video, businessman Andrés Díaz Bedolla said these Chinese apps face...

As drought deepens in Mexico, the National Water Commission on Thursday presented a plan that officials hope will save 2.8 billion cubic meters of water across the country. Water commission (Conagua) officials on Thursday said the updated National Irrigation Modernization Program aims to upgrade systems that will affect 200,000 hectares of irrigable land in Mexico, reducing agricultural water waste. Efraín Morales, director of Conagua, shared the plan to upgrade Mexico’s agricultural water infrastructure at the president’s Thursday morning press conference. (Daniel Augusto/Cuartoscuro) During her morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said her administration plans to invest 51.8 billion pesos (US $2.5 billion) during her six-year term to modernize the nation’s irrigation systems. She said the system overhaul will increase productivity. “[The hydro-agriculture sector] will see greater production with less water,” she said, “freeing up 2.8 billion cubic meters [of ...

Four Mexican soldiers were sentenced Monday to 40 years and nine months in prison after being convicted of five counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide. The soldiers sentenced were found guilty of indiscriminately firing upon a pickup truck in which seven civilians were riding in the early-morning hours of Feb. 26, 2023. The civilians were returning from a night out in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo after celebrating the impending birth of one victim’s first child. The extrajudicial killings by Mexico’s armed forces occurred in Nuevo Laredo in 2023. (Carlos Alberto Carbajal/Cuartoscuro) Families of the victims celebrated the outcome of the trial but urged federal authorities to stand firm in the face of a likely appeal by the sentenced soldiers.  The defendants remain under guard at a military base in Mexico City. If they lose their appeal, they must serve their sentences in a civilian prison. The presiding judge also ordered the commander of the XV...

The U.S. government has deployed another warship to waters near Mexico as part of President Donald Trump’s call to secure its southern border. The USS Spruance is the second Navy destroyer that served in the Red Sea to be ordered to support the U.S. Northern Command’s mission. Spruance departed U.S. Naval Base San Diego on Saturday, just days after the USS Gravely deployed to the Gulf of Mexico as part of the U.S. military’s response to Trump’s executive order declaring a national emergency at the border. Gen. Gregory Guillot, the commander of U.S. Northern Command, said the deployment will focus on combating maritime-related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction and illegal seaborne immigration. “With Spruance off the West Coast and USS Gravely in the Gulf of America, our maritime presence contributes to the all-domain, coordinated DOD response to the Presidential Executive Order and demonstrates our resolve to achieve operati...

Mexico introduced the Taruk on Tuesday, an electric bus that is the nation’s first domestically manufactured electric vehicle (EV).  Its name means “roadrunner” in the Indigenous Yaqui language. Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard, right, was on hand Tuesday to introduce Mexico’s Taruk, the nation’s first domestically made electric vehicle. With him is Altagracia Gómez Sierra, director of Mexico’s Economic Development Advisory Council. (Graciela López/Cuartoscuro) Fostering efficient and economically viable projects The vehicle was developed by the Mexico automaker Dina and the EV conversion firm Megaflux, with support from the National Council of Humanities, Science and Technology (Conacyt) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s School of Engineering.  Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard presented Taruk at a press conference where he announced the first units will operate in the port city of Ensenada in Baja California.  The electric vehicle has a capacity...

Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested an ex-municipal police officer in connection with the infamous case of the abduction and presumed murder of 43 students in Guerrero in 2014. Rey Flores Hernández, alias “El Negro,” was detained in Iguala, Guerrero, according to a statement issued by the Defense Ministry, the Navy Ministry, the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR), the National Guard and the Security Ministry. Rey Flores Hernández is an ex-municipal police officer in Iguala, Guerrero, where the 43 Ayotzinapa students were abducted in 2014. (Gov. of Mexico) The statement said that as a “result of investigative work about the disappearance of the students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, in 2014,” federal security forces executed an arrest warrant for the crimes of organized crime and enforced disappearance. Video footage shows the suspect being marched into a facility, possibly FGR offices, after his arrest. The statement said ...

A forest fire near the Magic Town of Tepoztlán has consumed more than 100 hectares of oak forest and was still burning as of noon Wednesday. The affected area, known as Chicuacemac, lies within the Protected Natural Area of ​​El Tepozteco National Park in Tepoztlán, just 50 miles from Mexico City in the state of Morelos.  The firefighting efforts were hampered by the rugged terrain of the Tepozteco’s jagged mountains. (Conafor) With cobblestoned streets and tiled roofs, Tepoztlán is one of the most popular tourist destinations for Mexico City residents. The town sits on an archaeological site built between 1150 and 1350 A.D., and stands about 600 meters above the Tepoztlán Valley. On Wednesday, the National Forestry Commission (Conafor) reported that the fire is 40% contained and 30% extinguished. Conafor said it is sending 12 firefighters from Mexico City to support the existing brigade team of more than 250.  Two helicopters from the Naval Ministry (Semar) and Defe...