Mexico has sent its first batch of fresh egg exports to the United States in the modern era.

U.S. tourists crossing from San Ysidro into Tijuana will be obliged to show passports or passport cards as of September, the Mexican Immigration Institute has announced. 

Wildfire social media rumors that the Instituto Mexicana de Seguro Social (IMSS) health-care program  is about to be privatized are way off the mark, several leading figures in Mexico confirmed this week.

At a time when few Mexicans are prepared to cut their chief executive much slack, some brighter news has landed on the desk of beleaguered President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Renowned Sinaloa Cartel jefe Joaquin “Chapo” (Shorty) Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison last weekend in an audacious breakout that had echoes of the hit movie “The Shawshank Redemption.” 

Although Enrique Peña Nieto’s state visit to France was eclipsed by the dramatic escape of Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman,  Mexico’s president and First Lady – sitting alongside French President Francois Hollande – seemed to thoroughly enjoy the moment 156 Mexican soldiers marched down the Champs-Elysees at the front of the annual July 14 Bastille Day military parade.