Well, this is some real bullshit. Mexican Coke is ditching its key ingredient, cane sugar, for high-fructose corn syrup. This is objectively awful. Read on Gizmodo 11/06/13 12:10pm 11/06/13 12:10pm

Meet 12-year-old Paloma Noyola Bueno. She goes to José Urbina López Primary School in Matamoros, Mexico. She's being touted as "the face of Mexico's unleashed potential." Mentioning Steve Jobs in the headline is purposely attention-grabbing — on Wired's part and on mine — but the gist of it is this: Our current idea of… Read… 10/24/13 3:10pm 10/24/13 3:10pm

The U.S. Embassy confirmed yesterday that 28-year-old Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcom X, was robbed and killed in Mexico City. Details surrounding the murder are still sketchy; the Shabazz family plans to fly to Mexico to claim his remains. Read… 5/11/13 12:30pm 5/11/13 12:30pm

Let's talk about what immigration reform means for migrant women's rights. According to a policy analysis by the Latina Institute (via this excellent Dissent piece) “the majority of undocumented immigrant women do not have access to affordable health insurance,” and “immigrant women are less likely to receive adequate… Read… 4/24/13 5:20pm 4/24/13 5:20pm

Well, here's a double whammy of saddening and maddening. This past Sunday, Maria Sanchez, 26, died in her Houston home from the effects of an inoperable spinal tumor. Just four days earlier U.S. Customs and Border Protection denied a humanitarian parole to her parents, so they were unable to see their daughter on her… Read… 1/09/13 10:25am 1/09/13 10:25am

¿No Te Baja?, which translates as "Missed Your Period?", is a nice alternative to all those cycle-tracker apps: it's a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style game that schools users on how to terminate a pregnancy using Misoprostol, a drug that's available OTC in Mexico and is often used in parts of the country where abortion… Read… 12/03/12 6:00pm 12/03/12 6:00pm

Twenty-year-old Maria Susana Flores Gamez was found dead on Saturday night, with an assault rifle near her body. According to the AP: Read… 11/27/12 12:05pm 11/27/12 12:05pm

A blonde-haired girl begging on the street in Mexico has caused quite a Facebook stir, prompting some observers to renew a long-standing debate about racism in Mexico, where indigenous people, according to CBS News, "live in poverty and passers-by often barely notice the dark-skinned children begging in the street." A… Read… 10/28/12 2:00pm 10/28/12 2:00pm

As expected, the 2011 cuts in Texas family planning—not to mention the patently absurd new law that women are required to get a sonogram 24 hours before their abortion procedure—are taking their toll on the ladies of the Lone Star State. Concerned women's health providers in Texas report that they're seeing a higher… Read… 9/29/12 5:30pm 9/29/12 5:30pm

Um! If any girlfish are reading this, please beware when you come across male freshwater llanos mosquitofish, otherwise known as Gambusia quadruncus. The evolution of the females of this Mexican species has given them a large ball of tissue that blocks most of their genital canal in order to allow them to keep away… Read… 9/29/12 2:40pm 9/29/12 2:40pm

A two-year-old boy in Mexico is much lighter on his feet these days after doctors removed a human-sized tumor from his side. During a 10 hour surgery, doctors in Mexico City were able to completely remove the 33-pound tumor (seen above). The boy, who's from the northern state of Durango, weighs only 26 pounds. The… Read… 6/27/12 10:00pm 6/27/12 10:00pm

Anyone familiar with the Mexico sketched in Roberto Bolaño's fiction knows that the southwestern borderlands from 2666 and The Savage Detectives is a place of almost mythic criminality, where apathetic or outright antagonistic law enforcement does little to relieve the heavy burden of drug cartel violence plaguing the… Read… 6/03/12 5:00pm 6/03/12 5:00pm

The Kardashians are not known for their book smarts, but you'd think that the producers of their show would at least know a thing or two about basic geography. Apparently not, because as someone on Reddit pointed out, the show woefully misrepresented where Los Angeles is on the map. I did a bit of quick research in my… Discuss… 5/29/12 11:10am 5/29/12 11:10am

Frustrated by an inability to get people's attention, one Mexican Congressional candidate took matters into her own hands. And by "matters," I mean "breasts." And by "into her own hands," I mean "up on a series of billboards." Read… 5/23/12 1:10pm 5/23/12 1:10pm

Last night, Mexican Presidential candidates engaged in a serious debate about serious issues that will likely face the country's next leader. But lest we forget that politics in every country are riddled with some serious sexism, the debate was kicked off by a woman in a cleavage bearing dress Vanna White-ing around… Read… 5/09/12 7:15pm 5/09/12 7:15pm

Competitors from Mexico perform during the team's technical routine at the synchronized swimming Olympic test event at the Aquatic Centre in the Olympic Park, London, Thursday, April 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Discuss… 4/22/12 3:00pm 4/22/12 3:00pm

Worshipers carry an image of the folk saint known in Mexico as "Santa Muerte" or "Death Saint" during a procession at Holy Week in Mexico City, Friday, April 6, 2012. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the life of Jesus, culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday. (AP… Discuss… 4/07/12 2:30pm 4/07/12 2:30pm

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful as Mexico's first lady Margarita Zavala, left, applauds, at a welcome ceremony after his arrival in Silao, Mexico, Friday March 23, 2012. Benedict's weeklong trip to Mexico and Cuba is his first to both countries. He has called for an end to the violence in Mexico. (AP… Discuss… 3/24/12 5:30pm 3/24/12 5:30pm

In a story that could be pulled right out of Roberto Bolaño's haunting posthumous novel 2666, about a thinly-disguised Ciudad Juarez — where the violent murders of hundreds of women go unsolved for years — the Mexican government publicly apologized yesterday to an indigenous woman named Valentina Rosendo Cantu, who,… Read… 12/16/11 3:40pm 12/16/11 3:40pm

Here's yet another reason why conservatives should stop freaking out about the push to legalize gay marriage: It could be so much worse. In 2009, liberal lawmakers made Mexico City the first Latin American city to legalize gay marriage. Now they want to introduce two-year marriages that would allow couples to either… Read… 9/30/11 5:00pm 9/30/11 5:00pm

The Mexican press is reporting that a pharmaceutical company is suing megastar Thalia for breach of contract, apparently because she got pregnant during a period she was supposed to be endorsing their creams. Read… 9/02/11 2:00pm 9/02/11 2:00pm

Resourceful teacher Marta Rivera Alanis calmed down her kindergartners by singing a song from Barney and Friends as a shootout raged in their city of Monterrey, Mexico. No one at the school was harmed in the shootout, and this is one of the only uses of a Barney song that we can actually approve of. Discuss… 5/30/11 3:45pm 5/30/11 3:45pm

Ralph Lauren polo shirts are apparently a growing trend among Mexican drug kingpins, and young people enamored of their infamy are following suit. Says a psychologist, "There is an aspirational crisis in Mexico today in which young people have lost faith in legal means for social advancement and see the 'narcos' as… Discuss… 5/26/11 5:03pm 5/26/11 5:03pm