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Mexican students shunning US universities

The tensions in the Mexico-U.S. relationship that have surfaced since Donald Trump won last year’s presidential election are the main reason for the decrease in the number of Mexican students applying for places at U.S. universities and colleges, according to a report by the American Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO).

Airlines face payouts for delays under new laws

Legislators in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the federal Congress, have approved changes to laws governing the aviation industry that will oblige airlines to reimburse passengers up to 25 percent of the ticket cost when flights are delayed for more than four hours under certain conditions. 

Ruling party to profit from arrests of fugitive governors?

The stunning arrests of two fugitive former state governors within the space of six days might be the spark that beleaguered President Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) were looking for to curry some much-needed favor with Mexico’s disillusioned citizenry.