Speaking of marching for your rights, the citizens of Mexico have their own historic gathering happening this Saturday on the issue of security in their country. Fed up with the state of lawlessness in a nation where kidnappings are...

After going through all the trouble of wrasslin’ with the Catholic Church to make abortion a legal option, Mexico City is now grappling with how to make it available for even the poorest women so that they won’t have...

Well, Team Mexico lost the Little League World Series Championship game today against Waipahu, Hawaii. And let us tell you, they deserved to lose. Or rather, Hawaii deserved to win. Because the Mexican team that played today was not...

UPDATE: In tomorrow’s World Championship game, Mexico will play Team Waipahu, Hawaii who beat Lake Charles, Lousiana this evening in the U.S. Championship 7-5. Undefeated Little League Team Matamoros, Mexico beat the undefeated Team Tokyo, Japan 5-4 in a 6-inning...

Okay, okay. Last weekeend we went off on the uselessness of the Olympics and sports in general. And we assure you that this is a policy we adherently stick to unless one of two things are involved: a) tailgating...

In what only can be described as so fucking Mexican, the administration at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa has decided to ban mini-skirts as part of a violence prevention program. Director of Studies, Héctor Melesio Cuen Ojeda explained that...

One of the things we love the most about being Latina is being able to claim ties with a vast and varied group of people. Of course, that’s only cool once we kind of gloss over some of the...

When Mexicans curse it’s like the dirtiest sailor and the meanest pimp all rolled into one, awesome, cowboy-hatted pregnant guy in his third trimester. So when Edgardo Morales began dubbing over old episodes of He-Man and Knight Rider with...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals consistently get us to consider forgoing leather and other animal products and simply eating PETA members instead. Their latest stunt involves placing billboards along the border between Mexico and the U.S. in...

Archeologists have discovered a series of really cool underground tunnels around the Yucatan Peninsula that are thought to have been built by Mayans as a portal for souls trying to enter the underworld. Only because riding the 7 train...

Mexican singer and actress Belinda’s home was robbed recently and now her father has come forward saying she had been receiving telephone threats for a while before the incident. Scarytown: “Yes, there have been menacing phone calls. This is...

While demolishing a bag of gummy worms this morning (we enjoy getting our day off to a healthy start), we began to wonder how real worms would taste, then recalled how our Mexican ex (our “Ex-ican,” if you will)...

Conner Oberst recorded his latest, self-titled album in Tepoztlán, Mexico. (What is it with the hipsters and Mexico these days?) It’s the first time he’s not recorded under the name Bright Eyes since high school and he decided to...

Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound just wrote to say that he is deejaying in San Antonio tonight as part of the Museo Alameda del Smithsonian’s Escultura Social: A New Generation Of Art From Mexico City. If you’re...

Consuelo Carreto Valencia is 4 feet, 9 inches tall, yet towers over the world of Mexican sex trafficking. God. No. Not literally, ok? It’s not like the world of Mexican sex trafficking is entirely constructed of Legos. It’s a...

If you’re looking for a way to kill yourself slowly, you can plan a trip to, say, Boca Raton, Florida. But if you’d like to get things moving a little more quickly, we’d suggest heading to Tijuana to purchase...

Oh, what a happy life a “Mexican zebra” must live! Born as super boring burros, they’re forced to stand still for hours while someone with a tube of dye and a toothbrush paints them striped so that they can...

That blissful time in which you could breezily comb the interwebs for a discreet and professional person to shoot your significant other in the face is soon to be in the past, if the Mexican police have their way....

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named eight new sites to the World Heritage list yesterday and Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere in Michoacan is among them. The biosphere is famous for the estimated 150 million monarch...

Shawnedria McGinty was taken aback by “Memin Pinguin” comics she found at her local Wal-Mart. The series, by Mexican illustrator Valencia Burgos, tells the story of a young black boy who often gets into trouble and isn’t too bright....

Mexican Disney (?) made a version of High School Musical because the appeal of adorably gay teen boys who dance and sing is universal. This version, it seems, will only be in theaters. Because most of Mexico can’t afford...

Americans who live on the Mexican border are going to Mexico to buy gas now that George Bush has snorted up all the oil and driven up prices to $4 a gallon. (This is such a flashback to how...

VBS.TV, the official online video network of people in baggy skinny jeans, oh and of Vice magazine, recently took a look at the complex issue of immigration for their Mexico issue. The result? Listening to stoned sounding skater illegals...

Well, 552 Americans since April have been identified with cases of the same genetic strain of salmonella—which means there are probably thousands of cases that have gone unreported—half of them are in the state of Texas. Meanwhile, the FDA...

We are consistently bemused by the disparate world views that exist between greater Mexico’s sexual conservatism and Mexico City’s sexual tolerance. Within a country that beats up its teenagers for wearing their hair a little gay, resides its capital...

Vice magazine, that impossibly hip publication that makes us want to punch anyone wearing a keffiyeh, has a new Mexican issue, creatively entitled Vice Mexico. In honor of it, their online video network VBS has devoted some time to...

The mysterious outbreak of salmonella-tainted, raw tomatoes that has sickened 228 Americans in 23 states is now being reported by most news outlets as likely coming from one source. (Although we personally think the FDA, like all government institutions,...

A Mexican designer named Miguel Caballero has managed to turn shit to silk, creating a line of bullet-proof clothing that appeals to consumers in a nation torn apart by drug cartel violence. Fashionable and perfect for Christmas with la...

There’s so much good stuff going on in the BBC Radio special report on Mexican emos we couldn’t stop with just one post. No, you must suffer through the deep thoughts of highly emotional Mexican teens with us. Then...

The plight of the Mexican emo is once again being documented by the world press. This time it’s BBC Radio who ran a special report on the great vengeance and furious anger being struck down on the eyelinered esquincles....

A donkey was arrested and incarcerated in Southern Mexico for biting and kicking some people in a crazy and hilarious cartoonish rage. What, was he raised in a barn?: The animal was locked up at a local jail that...

Manuel Uribe of Monterrey, Mexico once held the title of “World’s Most Obese Man.” Prestigious! Overachiever that he is, though, he’s currently vying to break a new record - that for most weight lost by a single human being:...

The New York Times took a look at California’s Central Valley, “The Appalachia of the West,” where many migrant workers take pharmaceutical drugs sent by family members in Mexico in order to self-medicate, often using improper doses, because they...

It’s May 5th. The historic day American beer companies decided to create a spike in post-holiday, pre-summer lagging sales. It’s also the historic Mexican date that is much easier for Americans to say that el dies y seis de...

Daniel Mauser, the publisher of Guanabee, is so Latino he was actually born on cinco de mayo, 28 years ago. Okay, everyone in Mexico pretty much ignores the holiday, but that was was kind of like Daniel, too. Until...

Mexican artist Daniel Guzmán is having an exhibit at the New Museum in New York City. Who the what, you say? DANIEL GUZMAN, YOU TARDS! The piece on the left is entitled “Kiss My Ass.” Cheesy metal + Sexicans...

MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News Emo bashing in Mexico—it’s a national crisis. So MTV, arbiters of world peace, have stepped in to provide an in-depth investigation into the matter. What they’ve uncovered is a country afraid of boys with feelings and...

The makers of American and therefore inferior tasting vodka Skyy just sent out a press release stating that, unlike dirty Mexican-loving Absolut, they fully support the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Oh really? Let’s take a look at that treaty,...

Just when we thought the Swedes had grown a sack, or at the very least, a sense of humor, they go and apologize to the Charlton Hestons of the world for their silly little ad reminiscing about the days...

Mexicans! A fiery people seething with passion and rage, are they not? And they sure do love to drink! Also, the have a lust for conquest passed down from the Spanish ancestors and the Aztecs, who would kill other...

A fight broke out at Las Misiones mall in Juarez, Mexico, prompted by an exchange of words between “emos” and “punks.” Sigh: Juárez public safety secretary Guillermo Prieto Quintana in a news statement on Thursday said the police anti-gang...

Prompted by a wave of like really harsh things posted on message boards and aired on Mexican network Televisa - from declaring that emo music kind of blows and that scene kids are fairly ridiculous, to labeling them as...

This video is a charming cross between High School Musical and that Filipino prisoner remake of “Thriller.” It features high school girls in Mexico dancing to Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For A Hero,” but in Spanish, natch....

“Hey stoners and boners!” says Diablo Cody. “Put down that wacky tabacky, ya heard, son? Because it’s making Sexico the wiggidy-wack capital of murderitos with extra NOT sauce, if you catch my drift! Awko taco!:” American drug users are...

Guanabee editor Cindy Casares grew up across the border from Mexico where rich Mexicans came over to shop, vacation and even avail themselves of the private schooling. These people were not so affectionately termed, “fresas.” Recently she learned that...

Mexicans, not content to steal jobs from and rape babies belonging to U.S. Americans, are starting to make their way into Canada: The U.K. remained by far Canada’s top overseas tourism market last year while the number of Mexicans...

We love Mana lead singer Fher Olivera, (Did you know that’s his last name? Us either!), if for no other reason than his Jesus complex is rivaled only by Bono’s. So when Fher takes time off from asking where...

The saga of Mexican musician murders continues as authorities confirm the body of 26 year-old singer Jesus Rey David Alfaro Pulido, aka “El Gallito,” was one of six found last week outside Tijuana: Alfaro, a regular act at Tijuana’s...

Close your eyes, put down that stapler you were going to throw at Scott in the billing department, and imagine your dream home. It looks exactly like that time you played mini-golf while on acid, doesn’t it? Of course...

The New York Times reports that Jesus Malverde, known as the “Mexican Robin Hood” and the “Patron Saint of Drug Dealers,” is gaining more and more popularity in the U.S. thanks to immigrants and their drug-dealing-thief-worshipping ways: [I]mmigrants have...