When Vicente Fox became president of Mexico in 2000 he made history as the “terminator” of the 71-year-long rule of Mexico’s staid old party.

The space drama “Gravity” won seven Oscars at last Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards, including best director for Mexico’s Alfonso Cuaron, the first Latin American to be bestowed with such an honor.

Some 150 Venezuelans living in Guadalajara made a beeline for the Minerva Fountain Sunday to add their voice to the protests against President Nicolas Maduro currently rocking the South American nation.

U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday joined the growing fraternity of admirers of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, praising his package of reforms that he said “promise to make Mexico more competitive and increase opportunity for its people.”

There were smiles, toasts and plenty of kind words for each other but Tuesday’s meeting between Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not exactly the love-in between major trade partners that it may have appeared on the surface.

You might already be consuming Canadian food products every day, even if you don’t realize it.