As Mexico City and the surrounding areas work through the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that hit earlier this week, a lot of heroes have stepped forward to help rescue survivors. Not the least of which is this beautiful pupper, Frida.

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Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn was quoted at Hasbro's HASCON, saying, "We are going to learn more about where Rocket comes from in the coming sagas." But what "coming sagas" could those be?

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As Hurricane Harvey continues to pound on the city of Houston and all of southeast Texas, the Mexican government has offered to aid the state and its beleaguered citizens in its evacuation and recovery efforts.

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A 17-year-old-girl in the affluent state of Veracruz, Mexico was attending a New Year's party with friends from her exclusive Catholic high school on the first day of 2015. As she was preparing to leave, 19-year-old Diego Cruz and three of his friends forced her into a car and allegedly sexually assaulted her.

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There's no question that, in many areas, the lives of women have improved worldwide as more and more women in more and more countries force gender equality to the forefront of the national discussion. However, there's also no question that "improvement" depends on the sector at which you're looking, and what you consider positive, feminist change.

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Earlier this morning, the Associated Press broke the story above. That the Trump administration "considers mobilizing" National Guard troops to round up undocumented immigrants. The White House has denied this. The AP has since followed up with receipts. This is going to be a long day ...

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President Trump recently signed an executive order that calls for the construction of the infamous Mexico Border Wall to begin.

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Even if Disney's Bob Iger doesn't want anyone to view Rogue One as a political film, we all know Star Wars is very political, and that Rogue One is coming out at an unusual time for American audiences. In an interview on Conan, Diego Luna addressed that tension directly.

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Like Pussy Riot in Russia, Las Hijas de Violencia (The Daughters of Violence) in Mexico are a feminist arts collective that take on all manner of misogyny while rocking out. Earlier today, we shared a post with you from our friends at Runway Riot who posted an awesome mini-documentary on the group. While that mini-doc is going viral right now, the song used in it - "Sexista Punk" - was released in the fall of last year, and these ladies have been going strong since 2014.

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The fifth installment in the "100 Years of Hair and Makeup" series is here, and this time Cut Video and model Reyna Marquez are taking a time-lapsed look at Mexico's mainstream fashion from the past 100 years. Want more history lessons from Cut Video? You can also check out their videos on the hair and makeup of Iran and North and South Korea.

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For no doubt the first time ever, a bad decision was made a pool party sponsored by Jagermeister. I know, I'm as shocked as you are. This bad call, though, went beyond the standard ill-starred hookup or barf-inducing round of Jager Bombs as organizers poured liquid nitrogen into the swimming pool. While this produced the desired 'smoke on the water' effect organizers were seeking, it also had an unintended consequence, creating a cloud of nitrogen gas that asphyxiated party goers and left several hospitalized, including a 21-year-old man who remains in a coma.

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Two students in the Xalapa, Mexico were frustrated by a seemingly endless stream of politicians lying and failing to fulfill campaign promises. In protest, they nominated a black-and-white cat named Morris to run for mayor. Election Day is July 7th, and so far this has gone about as well as you might expect.

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Part of the whole trademark nonsense is the idea that they have to be aggressively enforced lest they be lost to the company that filed them. It's why a number of lawsuits are filed about brand names versus slightly similar brand names, and it's a mighty headache for small companies that get caught in the crossfire just because they happen to share a name in some way with a larger company or their product. This is the reasoning that saw Apple take on iFone, a Mexican telecommunications company. Unfortunately for Apple, they've lost in a big way and now won't be able to sell phones under the iPhone name in Mexico.

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Archeologists have long thought that cacao beans and pods were primarily used in pre-Columbian cultures to make an elite beverage, made by crushing up the beans and mixing them with liquids or allowing their pulp to ferment. But a recent discovery by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History has shifted our understanding of the ancient food, suggesting that the historical plant might have actually been used as a sauce or condiment much earlier than previously thought.

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The latest music video from former mixed martial artist Genki Sudo and his musical project WORLD ORDER is as visually surreal as it is catchy. In it, a troupe of seven well-dressed Japanese men dance their away across Mexico. Though, "dancing" really doesn't give credit to the tightly choreographed moves and the physical endurance of the men involved. Together, the group creates a series of strange, wonderful images -- without, it appears, the aid of CGI. Watch it, you won't regret it.

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According to the UK Guardian, two people have been arrested in Mexico for spreading incorrect information over the Twitter messaging service. Local officials intend to prosecute the accused man and woman under the country's terrorism laws, meaning the pair could face up to 30 years in prison. The arrests stemmed from rumors of a school in Veracruz being stormed by gunmen which were tweeted by school teacher Gilberto Martinez Vera and radio personality Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola. These rumors were taken as fact by a nervous populous, and led to a reported 26 car accidents as concerned parents rushed to schools in order to protect their children from imaginary dangers. Emergency phonelines apparently became paralyzed under the sheer bulk of calls concerning the false gunmen. What's still unclear where the rumors originated from.

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Jose Maldonado, a bricklayer in Guadalajara, Mexico recently managed to do something that no one has been able to pull off: He captured a fairy. Best Week Ever quotes him as saying:

I was picking guavas and I saw a twinkling. I thought it was a firefly. I picked it up and felt that it was moving; when I looked at it I knew that it was a fairy godmother.

Not necessarily his fairy godmother, but a fairy godmother. Still better than, say, a plastic fairy figurine, right? Following his discovery, he took the fairy godmother and preserved her in formaldehyde (presumably because he assumed she was already dead) and is now showing her off to all comers, for a price. Currently unemployed, Jose is asking for donations from the thousands of people who have come to see and, at least to some extent, are convinced. “I’ve seen everything and, yes, I believe the fairy is real,” said one visitor who has apparently seen everything, except maybe Peter Pan.

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