Each of the 11.88 million votes cast during the June 4 elections in Nayarit, Coahuila, Estado de Mexico and Veracruz cost at least 446 pesos, according to national election officials.

In the next 5 years, passports could become quaint objects of nostalgia, thanks to biometric technology, which will use facial and retinal recognition software to verify travelers’ identities. It’s only a matter of time, then — considering the speed with which the larcenous members of our species get around obstacles planted in their way by the relatively scrupulous members — for a market in forcibly extracted eye balls to emerge and thrive.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been good to the news business, pundents and late-night TV hosts, but Mexican businesses are also using his unpopularity with their countrymen to their advantage.

A brand of toilet paper called “Trump” is set to go on sale soon, with the profits earmarked to help migrants and deportees.

The prospect that U.S. President Donald Trump could scrap the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the endless talk about a 2,000-mile border wall, the arrest and deportation of Mexican immigrants back to their home country… The US-Mexican saga can be pretty confusing, but one thing is clear: relations have turned sour. Mexico is mired in political and economic quicksand, but it can still count on an old friend for help: Spain.  

The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) appeared to have won last Sunday’s gubernatorial election in Estado de Mexico but the narrowness of the result means they can take nothing for granted when the nation votes to elect a new president in 2018.