For those of you with time on your hands, try checking out www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012 to see what kind of information Americans and Mexicans were scouring the web for this year. Here’s a sampler of some top searches. Yes, there are cultural differences!

The controversial head of Mexico’s National Teachers’ Union (SNTE) has voiced opposition to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposals for educational reform.

Mexico’s daily minimum wage will increase by 2.43 pesos as of January 1, 2013.

As the United States veers ever closer to the dreaded “fiscal cliff,” should Mexicans also be bracing themselves for an economic fall?

British weekly The Economist ran a special edition focused on Mexico last month, examining the problems, challenges and the potentially bright future facing the country.

Although newly installed as a lecturer at Harvard, Felipe Calderon will be entitled to a larger pension than any former president of other Latin American, U.S. or European states.