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The body of Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos was found Thursday on a dirt road near the Mexican state capital, Culiacan. It marked the ninth slaying of a journalist or photographer in that country this year. Although drug cartels are often blamed, not every journalist wrote about the syndicates, leaving questions as to what…

A Univision-broadcast game between two Mexican soccer teams became something much more serious this evening. The match was suspended in the 62nd minute as fights began to break out among the 30,000-plus attendees. The melee soon spread to the field as fans chased each other, some with weapons, and families fled the…

Mexico-based Grupo Televisa and Univision have closed their $4.8 billion merger, uniting their vast Spanish-language media and production holdings in the U.S. and Mexico. The new entity, known as TelevisaUnivision Inc., builds on a previous production alliance created by the companies as they looked to fend off a…

Two players on Mexico’s Olympics baseball team tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday, prior to their scheduled departure to Tokyo, according to a statement from the Mexican Baseball League. The players in question were Héctor Velázquez and Sammy Solís, both of whom are pitchers for the Acereros de Monclova. Both were…

Outspoken actress Rose McGowan has moved to Mexico and says she will never return to live in the USA. Speaking on the YouTube series The Dab Roast, McGowan said she moved to Mexico in early 2020. “I just got my permanent residency card from Mexico, and I’m so grateful to have it,” McGowan said. “This is a really…

UPDATED with video: In I’m No Longer Here (Ya no estoy aquí), filmmaker Fernando Frias puts the spotlight on Kolombia counterculture in the region of Northern Mexico. Following the story of 17-year-old Ulises (played by breakout Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño), the film, Mexico’s submission in the International Feature…

Funimation, a leading provider of anime content, plans to expand its streaming service to Brazil and Mexico this fall, offering select subtitled and dubbed anime series in Spanish and Portuguese. The company, an independent joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment and Japan's Aniplex, already operates…

Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron has lent his voice to a campaign in support of the rights of Mexico's domestic workers amid the coronavirus crisis. Mexico New Daily reports that the "Care For Those Who Care For You" movement, which has the support of the United Nations, advocates that workers continue to be paid during…

Tubi, one of the leading U.S. players in ad-supported streaming, will expand its service into Mexico later this year through a deal with TV Azteca. The expansion comes as the startup also prepares to enter the UK market later this year. TV Azteca, one of the world’s two top producers of Spanish-language television…

EXCLUSIVE: TVCortos, which programs short-form Spanish entertainment, has launched in Mexico via a deal with a top pay-TV provider, Megacable. ShortsTV, a channel dedicated to short movies that is known in the U.S. for, among other things, backing theatrical programs of Oscar-nominated shorts, is the curator of…

SAG-AFTRA and Mexico's performers union have signed what they're calling an "historic cooperative agreement" in which they've pledged to consider joint bargaining in areas of mutual interest. The agreement with the Asociación Nacional de Actores (ANDA) was announced today at SAG-AFTRA's biennial convention in Los…

A reporter with National Geographic was shot in the leg when an interview in Juárez, Mexico turned violent. The shooting occurred Friday night while the unidentified male journalist was interviewing a suspected drug dealer, the Chihuahua state attorney general's office said in a statement on its website. The reporter…