Young Mexicans are protesting their country’s media for shamelessly plugging a telegenic young candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, as Mexico’s great hope for the July 1 presidential election. He rules the polls with double-digit leads over his rivals.

Peña Nieto may look handsome, but boy does he come with a lot baggage. Leave it to the country’s youth to point that out. On Wednesday, as many as 15,000 youths took to the streets of Mexico City to cry out: Don’t believe the hype!

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Via: Rehab International

After three years in first place, Juarez, Mexico, may have slipped to second place this year.

But the border town and several of Mexico’s other cities still remain among the most violent.

In a study released by the Citizen’s Council for Public Security and Justice, a Mexican research group, five of the top 10 most violent cities were Mexican.

Honduras’ San Pendro Sula was the most violent city last year, with 159 murders per 100,000 people, in an indication of how the drug war has spread.

The Baluarte bridge in northern Mexico, inaugurated yesterday, is officially the world’s tallest suspension bridge now.