According to the Foreign Voting Commission, of the already-scant half-million Mexican registered voters living in the United States, only 32,600 have requested ballots for the upcoming elections. 

“We repeat what we have said many times: Mexico will not pay, under any circumstance, for a wall in U.S. territory along the border.

According to a recent Gallup poll, Mexico is the world’s fourth happiest country, following on the heels of, from third to first, the Philippines, Colombia and Fiji.

A vocal group  of opponents to Mexico’s polemic Interior Security Law staged a demonstration last Sunday to highlight what some consider to be the first step in establishing a military dictatorship in the country.

The U.S. State Department has updated its travel advisory for Mexico, which among other things strongly councils caution when traveling to Jalisco and includes dire warnings to stay away from five states: Colima, Michoacán, Sinaloa, Guerrero and Tamaulipas.

Newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic reported this week that Jeremy Corbyn, the left-of-center leader of the United Kingdom’s opposition Labour Party, spent Christmas and the New Year in Mexico with his Mexican wife Laura Alvarez.