The financial misfortunes of retail giant Sears in the United States will not impact stores in Mexico, according to Grupo Sanborns, which owns 99 percent of the south-of-the-border operation.

Former President Vicente Fox has been one of the highest profile champions for the movement to legalize soft drugs in Mexico.

The public’s favored acronym to replace TLCAN (the Mexican equivalent of NAFTA) is T-MEC, short for Tratado Mexico-Estados Unidos-Canada, according to a recent survey carried out on behalf of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

As many as 400 federal police officers and soldiers have been deployed to Mexico’s southern border in anticipation of the arrival of a “caravan” of more than 4,000 Central American migrants heading to the United States.

Mexico’s President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador is getting a head-start on the launch of sweeping social assistance programs with a nationwide census of needy Mexican families.

One issue that portends to cast a shadow over the early days of the incoming Mexican presidency is the construction of the new Mexico City airport, which according to recent reports (and who you believe) is somewhere between one-fifth and one-third complete.