Ever since candidate Donald Trump announced that if elected president of the United States he would build a border wall and get Mexico to pay for it, this country’s chief executive, Enrique Peña Nieto, has vigorously avowed that not one centavo will be contributed toward its cost.

New federal aviation laws obliging Mexican and foreign airlines to offer financial compensation to passengers in the event of delays longer than two hours will be implemented on October 31.

At 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, a bomb fashioned out of a fire extinguisher, gunpowder, adhesive tape and a wick exploded in a meeting chamber at the headquarters of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, the official leadership body of the Catholic Church in Mexico.

Mexico registered 23,953 homicides for last year, the fourth highest number registered in the country’s history, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI).  

A bout of Montezuma’s Revenge, the severe gastric upset many foreigners experience while traveling in Mexico, is almost a rite of passage for first-time visitors, especially for Americans, whose immune systems are no match for, say, four or five street tacos inhaled in a frenzy of post-club hunger at 2 a.m.

The United Kingdom may be going through turbulent political times, but its relationship with Mexico is “getting better all the time,” Duncan Taylor, the U.K. ambassador in Mexico, has confirmed.