Gas and diesel hikes continue

Consumers can expect gasoline and diesel fuel hikes every month through the end of 2015, according to Mexican Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell.

Mexicans are significantly happier than the majority of people in other industrialized nations, says the Better Life Index, a study recently carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

According to the Washington Post, the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington State is making life hard for cannabis farmers in Mexico.

Mexico’s Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (Social Development Secretariat or Sedesol) is inviting Mexican citizens over the age of 65 who do not receive a pension to sign up to the new Programa Pensión para Adultos Mayores.

Both U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Anthony Wayne have recently hosted screenings of “Cesar Chavez,” a new film about the inspirational U.S. labor leader who in the 1960s stood up for the rights of migrant workers and cofounded the United Farm Workers union.

Bicycle theft is one crime in Mexico that delinquents are almost guaranteed to get away with.