Human stupidity is the fifth element. Its on the rise. We see, rarely seen manifestations of it.

Exactly. These are obviously the bodies of humans' genetically-engineered descendants from the far future; they've somehow traveled backwards in time to more than a millennia ago where some tragedy befell them and their corpses were preserved until the present day.

Is something big happening in Mexico so that there's a need for a distraction like this?

I saw something similar occuring in my country. When the newspapers report about a scandal, a new distraction is created.

Ah, yes, if only we had some kind of novel set of natural disasters and political events to report on…

So a huge earthquake in Morocco and a flood + dam collapse in Libya don't count? Seems like a You problem.