Mexico’s 2020 Census kicked off March 2, with a small army of 151,000 census takers fanning out to every corner of the nation to capture data that, once tabulated, will form the blueprint for the  equitable distribution of billions of pesos in public funding over the next decade.

Daylight saving time (DST) begins in the United States and Canada on Sunday, March 8, but won’t take effect in most of Mexico for another four weeks.

Around 200,000 tickets for the lottery of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s presidential plane will go on sale in Jalisco as of March 2. Each “cachito” – as the tickets are referred to – will have a cost of 500 pesos.

The majority of the country’s practicing Catholics initiated Lent by attending church on Ash Wednesday (Miercoles de Cenizas) when a priest – or in some cases a nun – stamped the sign of the cross on their foreheads in ash while reciting a familiar spiritual admonition such as “Repent and believe in the Gospel” or “You are dust and to dust you shall return.”

Mexico does not fall into the category of nations that a World Health Organization expert recently warned are “simply not ready’ to contain a coronavirus pandemic, a federal official said.

Mexico’s lawmakers have until April 30 to come up with a regulatory framework for the legalization of marijuana.