While Mexico’s soccer players are lauded for their heroics on the field, the army of fans that followed the team to Brazil face media scrutiny for using a popular chant that is regarded by many as a gay slur.

Even hardened soccer skeptics are being reluctantly drawn into the ballyhoo of World Cup 2014, whose first week provided a slew of exciting games, goals and dramatic climaxes, as well as fine performances by the Mexican and U.S. teams.

Drug gangs are said be pleased as they assess the windfall President Enrique Peña Nieto has handed them by opening Mexico’s 75-year-old state oil company, Pemex, to foreign investors, putting up for grabs this country’s portion of the rich Eagle Ford Shale deposits.

President Enrique Peña Nieto has announced that Pope Francis has accepted his invitation to visit Mexico on an as yet unspecified date.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto revealed his penchant for Mexico's famed fiery liquor during a visit to Guadalajara Monday.

Mexican citizens and foreign residents were still reeling under the weight of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s most recent brain storm – a new, amazingly confusing, confused and onerous set of tax laws – when the Republic was hit by a government move surprising economists here and abroad.

Mexico’s Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (Social Development Secretariat or Sedesol) is inviting Mexican citizens over the age of 65 who do not receive a pension to sign up to the new Programa Pensión para Adultos Mayores.

During Enrique Peña Nieto’s successful campaign for president and during the first months of his administration, beginning in December 2012, he vowed that his government would end the close relationship between Mexican and United States security programs, halting the “perp walks” of captured drug lords and their lieutenants before television cameras.

Mexican and U.S. soccer fans suffered heartache this week after both teams made dignified exits from the 2014 World Cup round of 16. 

Around 5,000 delirious green-jerseyed, flag-waving fans made a beeline for Guadalajara’s Minerva traffic circle Monday afternoon after the Mexican soccer team advanced to the last 16 of the World Cup following a decisive 3-1 victory over Croatia.